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 ...

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 ...

What if our nation actually has two one-party systems, instead? And if the United States has two one-party systems, then that ...

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 ...

Disillusioned by both the Republican and Democratic parties, a prominent businessman says he's going to try something new and break up the two-party duopoly. This year, it's Elon Musk, who says he's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...