Speaking to a crowd of over 6,500 in Portland, Maine, on Labor Day, Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner offered his assessment of the American political system.

What Native American political systems can teach us about power and truth telling My Choctaw ancestors understood the cost of lies.

Yes, our political system is badly broken. But it doesn’t have to be this way Our political system runs on a set of hidden rules. They don't work for anyone — except the system itself ...

Asked to describe a strong point of the American political system, more than half of respondents either denied that the system had any or skipped the question altogether.

A majority of voters believe the U.S. political system only works for insiders with money and power, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. Fifty-seven percent of registered voters said the country’s ...

A survey of the chaos across the U.S. political system. By David Leonhardt Imagine if you were a foreign leader surveying the political chaos in the United States: For the first time in history, a ...

Moving ahead with the impeachment of Donald Trump is a good idea. Indeed, the fact that it is moving forward is a sign of the deep fissures in the ruling class. They are very divided. Even if it ...

The US follows a two-party system. This means that, although more than two parties can campaign and hold office, two political groups, the Democrats and the Republicans, hold majority of the power.

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 ...

As dissatisfaction with the two-party system grows in the United States, the idea of an alternative, however unlikely, gains traction. Elon Musk’s recent call for an America Party may be ...

American voters on both sides hate the feedback loop that is creating more polarisation with each election. So why is change so elusive?