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 ...

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 ...

Peter Turchin warned America was on the brink of a decade of growing political unrest. This is what he says now.

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.

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 ...

Opinion: Campaign Legal Center's Adav Noti says structural changes that redefine how money is used in the US political system ...

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.

Biden, indeed, is the perfect embodiment of an American political system that is rotting on its feet. The president, it is true, is not able to speak clearly, and may well be non compos mentis.

For almost 200 years a two-party system has sustained itself as the basis of our democratic government. Since the mid-1850's, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated the American political scene.

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 ...

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 ...