Since the Great Recession that began in 2008, many mainstream parties that have dominated political life in democracies like ...

Today, we are witnessing the birth of a new dual state. The U.S. has long had a normative state. That system was always ...

The Chinese system could be an advantage in a US trade war, but both countries could face ‘real harm’, according to experts.

If the US Supreme Court rules any of Donald Trump’s executive orders unconstitutional then the scene is set for a ...

Power in the USA is not concentrated on any one person ... of the American Constitution in 1789 went to great lengths to ensure that political power would not be concentrated within a single ...

One might argue that the current problem with America’s parties is not that they are too strong but that they are too weak. The basics of the political system – an independently elected ...

The US Capitol Building - the seat of US Federal Government. The US Federal Government is based in Washington DC and is comprised of the President, US Congress (two houses - House of ...

Chemerinsky’s book, “No Democracy Lasts Forever,” released Aug. 20, argues that the United States Constitution ... was ...

The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America. For the first time in American political history, we have a genuine, fully-sorted, two-party system, with no overlap between the parties. American ...

Ellen L. Weintraub is chair of the Federal Election Commission. We have to fix our broken money-in-politics system in order to make real progress anywhere else. It has too big an impact on who ...