The American experiment is failing, they say. The economy is broken. Our society is in decay. Only sweeping power exercised ...

Thom Hartmann’s new book exposes the cracks in our political system that enabled Trump’s rise and the sweeping reforms needed ...

A file photo shows the American flag below the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) One of the darker moments in modern American political history was what became ...

President Donald Trump is, in my view, such a narcissistic, self-serving con artist that he and his cadre of bootlickers are easy targets for Democrats to blame for much of what is wrong in the ...

Young Americans are increasingly turning away from the traditional two‑party system in Washington, signaling a broader ...

What does this say about the state of our political process? Does the United States need a third political party? Are the ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

On Dec. 19, at 6 p.m., Elections Reform Now will present a webinar on "How to Reform the Political System to Combat Polarization and Extremism." In 2021, a group of the leading academics in the United ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Hours before the results started coming in on November 5, when Democrats were still ...

Norden is vice president of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. Weiner is director of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for ...

For a swath of the left cynical about the American political system, “libbing out” means indulging in hope. By Joseph Bernstein Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, is a democratic ...