Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated
rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do …

Abstract Changes to the media environment have increased polarized voting in America
through both addition and subtraction. We argue that the decline of local newspapers has …

Fox Populism offers fresh insights into why the Fox News Channel has been both
commercially successful and politically effective. Where existing explanations of Fox's …

This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting
computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-based scale, we measure …

Since 2003 and the emergence of FactCheck. org in the United States, fact-checking has
expanded both domestically and internationally. As of February 2018, the Duke Reporter's …

This paper shows that partisan cable news broadcasts have a causal effect on the size and
composition of budgets in US localities. Using exogenous channel positioning as an …

Despite broad public support, investment in US infrastructure has not kept pace with growth,
population shifts, and rising exposure to climate change risks. One explanation lies in …

Individuals seeking news content face a variety of options in the current media landscape,
yet scholarly research provides little evidence regarding the conditions under which they …

Today's news media environment incentivizes gatekeeping practices that lead to a bias
toward content containing partisan conflict and ideological extremity. Using a content …