Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pittsburgh is a city where your politics often depend on how your community and neighborhood are doing. Rebecca Droke/AFP ...

Political content on social media finds you even if you’re not looking for it, and it tends to do so through a ...

American political divisions surged between 2008 and 2020, but this trend is not happening globally. A new study in Royal Society Open Science uses machine learning to reveal how cultural issues drive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barry Eichengreen, American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Warning of the danger of accelerating political polarization, former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the current ...

The United States government has been shut down for nearly a month, yet another indication that the political system has become deeply dysfunctional. But the shutdown is just another episode in a ...

When it comes to political polarization in the United States, the Pittsburgh region offers a useful window into what communities can do about it. Pittsburgh is a “comeback city.” The once-prosperous ...

America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It isn’t because of interest rates, or an aging population, or even runaway ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ilia Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh (THE CONVERSATION) When it comes to ...