In more routine ways, the political system feeds frustration and discontent ... according to calculations published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Americans have long been skeptical ...

Roger Porter, a Harvard Kennedy School expert on presidential power, explains what executive orders can and cannot do and how ...

Trump has built a diverse working-class coalition. Can he pass it on to his successor?

The American political system is unique: a system built in pursuit of deadlock rather than “progress,” a system that fully understands human nature and proactively defends against it ...

American voters on both sides hate the feedback loop that is creating more polarisation with each election. ... they might realise a lot of their concerns about the US political system are the same.

discussed the influence of money on the political system in the U.S., implicating his own party in the corruption he said it causes. “I think the entire American political system is corrupted by ...

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best ...

This failure of the Democrats’ focus on democracy points to a bigger problem: many voters do not believe that democracy is benefitting them or that the American political system is worth preserving.

The American political system helped create today’s problems, and only the American political system can solve them. By David Leonhardt Many Americans have come to see the political system as ...

U.S. intelligence officials have compiled a classified report detailing extensive efforts to manipulate the American political system by the United Arab Emirates, an influential, oil-rich nation ...

The risk when the country becomes hyper-polarised, with different parties in control of different arms of government, is that the checks and balances in the American political system turn into ...