Polarization: Its Past Present And Future

Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy releases results measuring Americans’ unity, beliefs on government and democracy  The results of the first Vanderbilt Unity Poll, released today, show that 52 percent of MAGA-identifying Republicans believe Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a better president than Joe Biden. … Read More

Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music Listen on Google Podcasts  Unity Talks, produced by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, is a podcast featuring a series of conversations and… Read More

The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy’s newly released data from the Vanderbilt Unity Index, which measures Americans’ general faith and trust in democracy, shows little change from the second to the third quarter of 2022.   For the second quarter in a row, the Vanderbilt… Read More

By Leonora Zilkha Williamson  As the calendar turns toward the next election, I think often of a dinner I tried to organize five years ago with two childhood friends (we’re all nearing 50 and spent youthful summers on the beach). The effort failed because of politics. One friend, an ardent… Read More

Subscribe to our newsletter, On Unity, to keep up to date with the Project’s events, research and publications. Friends and fellow citizens, Summer break is coming to a close, but there’s still time to add our newest episode of Unity Talks:… Read More