The two-party system in the US has led to pockets of one-party rule. In major cities and virtually all of New England, Republicans might as well not exist for all the representation they receive.

As the “Big Lie” of a stolen election continues to dominate the Republican Party, GOP-controlled states enact restrictive voting laws and pursue preposterous el… ...

Party identity hardened: one party for liberal, cosmopolitan America; the other for conservative, small-town America. The middle ground collapsed. And that’s where we are today.

The fact that two thirds of our electorate are frustrated with our electoral system does not mean that willing a third party into being will make it stick.

The Electoral College’s winner-take-all math means a new party would need to win outright in multiple states to have any shot — a virtually impossible task without displacing one of the ...

But the term “two-party system” is a misnomer. Nothing in the Constitution sanctions a two-party system. The two-party duopoly is an accident of history, not the work of the framers.

Finally, despite the appeal of a two-party system, it seems to exhibit many fundamental problems. For example, political parties in countries with a two-party system, such as the United States and ...