Matthew McConaughney urges voters to ditch 2-party system
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They're former Democrats, Republicans and long-standing independents. Meet America's independent voters, who told us why they changed their minds.
Virtually nobody in America is happy with the politics of the present age. Though we disagree about pretty much everything, we can all agree on that. It is what to do about it that tends to divide. In his bracing new book, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop ...
The US electoral system continues to amplify and reinforce divisions, feeding a tit-for-tat escalation of distrust, bad faith, and demonization. The recent collapse of the bipartisan combined Ukraine aid/border security bill makes one thing clear: Those ...
Ask any group of Americans, and the majority of them will express deep hatred for the two-party system. Support for a third party (though not any specific third party) is at an all-time high according to Gallup, who has been polling about it since 2003.
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 world where Major League Baseball has only two teams.
When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, things have not changed for the better. Garry is ...
For years, voters have voiced frustration with both major parties. Unspun asks if there is room for a real third party in American politics, or are we locked into a two-party system? As more Americans, especially independents and younger voters, say the ...
Prior to 2020, I was definitely interested in politics. Starting in 2016, I really began to think about race, culture, economics, and political power. But it wasn’t until 2020 that I found that there exists a very important link between politics and ...
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the goals associated with a political organization. We regret the error. Next year could feature a six-way race for ...
Are Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump really the two best candidates for America’s most demanding and important job? Hardly. Trump tried to reverse the last election. And while Harris would be a reversion toward the mean ...