For the better part of two centuries, the Republican and Democratic parties have maintained a duopoly over politics and government. They currently control 99.96% of elected offices.

I have discovered there is life after partisan politics. If you want an eye-opening experience, I challenge you to step outside of the two-party system. You might just like what you find.

He wrote then of English municipal politics: ‘There already appears a general phenomenon, . . . the indifference to municipal matters which is growing up among the citizens.

There is also nostalgia for the recent period in which our two-party system seemed to work: roughly from the Great Depression until the end of the 20th century, when both U.S. parties shared broad ...

Mark Cuban has said Elon Musk's America Party's focus on a few Congressional races could create "leverage." ...

Dissatisfaction with two-party politics is at an all-time high, new Gallup polling shows, with 62 percent of Americans saying Democrats and Republicans are doing such a poor job of representing ...

The US political system has settled in on allowing only two major parties to produce candidates for political office. In this post, I argue that the two-party system encourages overly-simplistic ...

Credit: REUTERS/Rick Wilking Pew Research has determined that four in 10 Americans do not support the notion of a two party political system. The two party system has deep roots in American history.

First of two parts Toxic partisanship in the United States is not a new problem. In 1796, President George Washington was so distressed by the way America was splitting into two political factions ...

Almost two out of every three Americans now live in urban or near-urban areas. Urbanization will bring profound political changes here, as it did in Britain.

Why two-party rule is better for both parties. In Washington, the republicans are pretty much running the show now in Congress and the White House, while back home here in Charlotte, it’s almost ...

Two-party control of U.S. politics runs contrary to the vision of the Constitution's framers.© Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Elon Musk announced in July 2025 that he is launching a new political ...