The American experiment is failing, they say. The economy is broken. Our society is in decay. Only sweeping power exercised ...

Thom Hartmann’s new book exposes the cracks in our political system that enabled Trump’s rise and the sweeping reforms needed ...

A file photo shows the American flag below the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) One of the darker moments in modern American political history was what became ...

What does this say about the state of our political process? Does the United States need a third political party? Are the ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

President Donald Trump is, in my view, such a narcissistic, self-serving con artist that he and his cadre of bootlickers are easy targets for Democrats to blame for much of what is wrong in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Hours before the results started coming in on November 5, when Democrats were still ...

Vance’s comment came in a post on X, where he argued that mass migration “strips opportunities from American workers” ...

For a swath of the left cynical about the American political system, “libbing out” means indulging in hope. By Joseph Bernstein Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, is a democratic ...

Norden is vice president of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. Weiner is director of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for ...

Our political system is unable to build a bipartisan consensus to address the major issues of our times. Hyper-partisanship is rampant. As a result, faith in our government and our institutions is at ...

In a country where the red vs. blue binary dominates nearly every election, Elon Musk—the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter)—has decided the two-party system isn’t working. His ...