Earlier this month, Elon Musk said he wanted to form a new political party. He’d been teasing the idea ever since clashing with President Donald Trump over his “big, beautiful bill,” which Musk ...

You’ve probably heard a lot about two-party systems this election season — with most of that chatter being about our two-party political system’s failure to benefit everyday Americans while upholding ...

A blunt charge has renewed debate over how America chooses its leaders, alleging that party rules and election laws protect Democrats and Republicans from real competition. In a recent conversation, a ...

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 ...

2026 is a big election year. The November midterms will determine who controls the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the results could make or break President Donald Trump’s (R) ability to ...

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 ...

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 ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Nicholas Antonucci, a social studies teacher in the Sachem school district who briefly ran in the 2022 Democratic primary in Congressional District 1. Imagine a ...

Amid political polarization across the country and lack of faith in the two-party system to solve people’s problems, a large number of younger Americans say they have abandoned both the national ...