The US government relies heavily on the balance of Democrats and Republicans- a two-party system called bipartisanship. Bipartisanship as a concept presents itself as the perfect path to compromise ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: On Thursday, Aug. 18, at 5 p.m. EDT, the PBS NewsHour along with the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research will present a special forum on "Race & the Race to the ...

George Washington was not a party man. In his Farewell Address, he warned that the political parties are “truly the worst enemy” of popular government. They are a “frightful despotism” built on the ...