The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...

As a matter of necessity, human beings must use conceptual frameworks to understand and bring order to their experience. Frameworks like the periodic table of elements in chemistry or Porter’s five ...

We're all used to the political spectrum going Left to Right. Almost everyone in politics looks at issues through this prism. I believe they're missing a second spectrum, however—one that can change ...

A new study published in Political Psychology suggests that the midpoint of the common left-right political spectrum scale hides a surprising amount of political diversity, potentially mixing ...

To the editor: Measuring views on a left-right political spectrum might be expedient for casual conversations, but views are not one dimensional (“L.A. Times Insights,” March 3). Neither are people.

Oskari Lahtinen, Senior Researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Center at the University of Turku in Finland, has developed validated tools for studying "woke" attitudes on both the political left ...

A study conducted by cognitive neuroscience researchers at Brown found that the brains of individuals on the extremes of the political spectrum process information more similarly to each other than to ...

According to a new survey, Americans express roughly the same level of concern over left- and right-wing violence. Photo from Kristina Volgenau, UnSplash Americans express roughly equal levels of ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance state was so completely coded as left-wing that Republicans regularly ...