President Donald Trump slammed former first buddy Elon Musk for starting a third political party, saying such parties have "never worked" while also calling the move "ridiculous." Trump spoke with ...

Elon Musk, who has revolutionized the auto industry, launched rockets into space and built a global business empire may now be facing his most daunting challenge yet: shaking up the two-party system ...

For nearly its entire 250-year history, the United States has been a nation of two major political parties. Elon Musk’s suggestion that he might found a new “America Party” has been met with ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. Yet the idea might just be worth taking seriously. Even if third parties are generally a losing proposition, Musk’s ...

As frustration with the American political establishment continues to soar across the country and public trust in the two-party system reaches historic lows, independent and third-party candidates are ...

Every so often in American politics, some rich guy with a big ego briefly entertains the idea of leading a new political party. Case in point: In 1999, Donald Trump explored the possibility of running ...

Tech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was a lifelong Democrat. But after losing New York City’s 2021 mayoral primary election, he left the party and founded his own ...

The United States recently ended its longest government shutdown, totaling 43 days. Most Americans blame the Republican Party for the temporary closure. What does this say about the state of our ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

For decades, American voters have been told they have a choice. But in reality, that "choice" is almost always between two political parties that increasingly resemble each other in dysfunction and ...