The gulfs between groups of voters shrank in the recent election. Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos is the Kirkland and Ellis ...

Depolarization occurs when the majority of members of a society accept that even if people don’t agree on an issue, they hold a shared understanding of the values that underpin it. In democracies, ...

Mr. Teixeira believes that American politics has entered “a period of racial depolarization.” Mr. Trump, long derided by his ...