I set out almost three years ago to travel the country and talk with as many ordinary Americans as possible to understand why we’re so deeply divided. This year, the “America at a Crossroads” team and ...

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign ...

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our ongoing Between Us series, examining the factors that contribute to polarization and prevent good governance, good citizenship and good relationships — and ...

Government shutdowns aren’t rare. Since the 1980s, we’ve had 15 — four in the past 12 years alone. And if there’s one thing they’ve all taught us, it’s that real people pay the price while everything ...

A philosopher suggests that we don't have to like each other in order to overcome polarization and work together. It turns out both sides recoiled at the expensive and rushed nature of the election.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president. By Peter Baker Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, was in the room for ...

Abstract: The longest common substring (LCS) identification has many applications in Pattern matching, Automata Theory, Bioinformatics, especially in DNA arrangement examination. The LCS issue looks ...

Common sense is often an abstract concept, defined both by an individual's mindset and their shared beliefs in a community, according to a PNAS study. While many people believe they have common sense ...