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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a blistering broadside against the American political establishment on Saturday, May 9, declaring that both the Republican and ...

This year won’t be the moment that independent and third-party candidates reshape our politics, but the foundation for something new is taking shape. The current system has momentum, but it cannot ...

I hate voting for the lesser of two evils. But I do it all the time. Once a decade, maybe, I find a candidate I can genuinely support, usually in a local race. No matter your politics, you've probably ...

America’s two-party system isn’t an accident — it is a direct result of our electoral structure. The political scientist Lee Drutman tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how shifting to proportional ...

The American political party system is dysfunctional. Gallup reports that 58% of Americans, including nearly half of Democrats and Republicans, feel that the two parties poorly represent the American ...

The United States is standing on the edge of a dangerous precipice. Donald Trump’s relentless partisan rhetoric has turned politics into a weaponized culture war. His words are not harmless bluster — ...

Karine Jean-Pierre has spent most of her career as a Democrat, working on four presidential campaigns and serving in the Obama and Biden administrations. But her days as a member of the Democratic ...

Imagine a political world where voters have the option of selecting a candidate strictly based on character, experience and accomplishments in honorable pursuits. Continue dreaming about sending ...

Many Americans report frustration with the two-party system, in which the Democratic and Republican candidates are seen as the only viable options for elective office. But an alarming trend in many ...

Is the two-party system doomed? Some progressive commentators think so. Labor activist Les Leopold argues in his recent book, The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own, that ...