Alone among other leading democracies, our political system is designed to encourage these consistent violations of majority ...

Americans want a third party as polarization grows; current parties serve ideological extremes, not the majority.

Elon Musk has officially declared his intent to launch a new political party, an announcement long on bravado but short on ...

The American political system is broken November 25, 2016 More than 8 years ago A crowd watches results for Hillary Clinton on election night at the Jacob K. Javits Center New York.

Americans’ outlook on national politics is best summarized as “dismal,” according to a wide-ranging new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.

The American political system helped create today’s problems, and only the American political system can solve them. By David Leonhardt Many Americans have come to see the political system as ...

For most of American history, the U.S. political system has been defined by weak, ideologically diverse parties that only lightly held together a wide range of competing views and contesting camps.

Our political system runs on a set of hidden rules. ... we have a better chance of electing leaders empowered to solve these problems and revivify the American dream — for all Americans.

American politics is broken, but here's why you shouldn't give up on the system just yet As former members of Congress who worked across the aisle, we are encouraged to see growing momentum for ...

The quasi-constitutional arrangement that political scientists would term “the party system” did not emerge until the 1830s. Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson were its founding fathers. Van Buren, a ...

And as a major new study by the Pew Research Center shows, discontent, especially about the nation’s political system, is bipartisan and deeply felt.. Only 4% of U.S. adults say the political ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The reaction to the recent resignation of Supreme Court ...