Although there was much going on in the U.S. election, we can draw a direct link from a two-party system to polarity of political positions. Extreme polarity is exacerbated by having only two choices.

OTTAWA - While the recent federal election turned into a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives that left other parties trailing far behind, a new poll suggests most Canadians don’t want ...

Electoral reform is needed to break the logjam that is our current two-party system and repair the dysfunction in our democracy. At a minimum, these reforms should include the adoption of ...

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, ...

Artificial intelligence is moving from campaign novelty to strategic weapon, and a growing group of political operatives believes it could finally give independent candidates a real shot at power in ...

Yet as Independent Center senior advisor Adam Brandon told NPR, AI could be just the tool to shake things up. In an interview ...

The U.S. and U.K. have relied on two-party politics for decades — but that model may finally be cracking. With Elon Musk proposing a new national party, and multiple splinter groups forming across ...

It was a substantial change to municipal politics — at least in Calgary and Edmonton — but in the end, voters in both cities were largely unimpressed. Still, it doesn’t seem like municipal political ...

0:40 Biden says assault weapons ‘need to be banned,’ will work to make it happen Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials will announce on Wednesday a new national political third party to ...

Elon Musk has the money and, at least for the moment, the motivation to steer America's politics away from its two dominant parties. But long-standing obstacles to third parties, as well as his own ...

Jenni Byrne, the campaign director who many blame for the Conservatives’ loss in the spring election, will continue to play a role in the party, but sources say she is stepping away from the daily ...

Two of B.C.'s three Independent MLAs have formed a political party that wants to lower taxes, take away teachers' right to strike, and crack down on so-called mass immigration. The party, called One B ...