Donald Trump’s surprise election win dramatizes how weak the party system in the United States has become. Over the course of the twentieth century, the Republican and Democratic Parties gradually ...

We do not need a third party in America. Instead, we need to declare our independence from the two we have. We are forced to register as a member of a party in order to have a meaningful vote (or any ...

The two-party system, by itself, is not inherently bad. Even countries with multiparty elections tend to have two dominant parties. What hurts the US is the electoral system used, first-past-the-post ...

Trump’s Tariffs Are Consigning the GOP to an Epochal Electoral Disaster A Washington State Senator Is Looking to Unseat One of the Quirkiest, Most Vulnerable House Dems in ’26 A West Coast Mamdani ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the goals associated with a political organization. We regret the error. Next year could feature a six-way race for ...

A viable third party is the great white whale of American politics — but Elon Musk appears willing to try it anyway. But political experts say his billions would be better spent buying him influence ...

For decades, American voters have been told they have a choice. But in reality, that "choice" is almost always between two political parties that increasingly resemble each other in dysfunction and ...

We are in a moment of nervous, semi-panicked reflection about the health and prospects of the American political system. Take The Atlantic’s March essay, “America Is Not a Democracy.” It begins with ...

My fellow Americans, you can say that you are witnessing history. I’m not talking about last year’s largely unexpected election of President Donald Trump. I’m referring to a fundamentally new paradigm ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Those who say the two-party system is simply obsolete are ignoring that we need a healthy government and ...

“It would be a great tragedy if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative-liberal line. [O]ne of the attributes of our political system has been that we have ...