There is no easy fix for our country’s political dysfunction. The most obvious area of need is education. We must immediately ...

Since the Great Recession that began in 2008, many mainstream parties that have dominated political life in democracies like the United Kingdom and Germany have lost vote share and enthusiasm to ...

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 ...

The Republican Party or the Republicans is the USA’s oldest political party and is economically conservative . Traditionally it stands for business, small government and low taxation.

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 ...

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 ...