Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Robin Webb, a longtime state lawmaker from Carter County, is the latest mountain Democrat to defect to the Republican Party. ...

It has become crystal clear with the recently Republican approved redistricting map, anti-abortion bills, anti-marijuana changes, and many other recent bills, that they have no interest in what the ...

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 ...

A viable third party is the great white whale of American politics — but Elon Musk appears willing to try it anyway. But political experts say his billions would be better spent buying him influence ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In the past few weeks, I have heard several people complain about the two-party political system and how ...

Elon Musk’s July 5 announcement that he’s starting a new political party could be consequential, but only if the world’s richest man maintains a sustained interest in the effort. Over the past three ...

I hate voting for the lesser of two evils. But I do it all the time. Once a decade, maybe, I find a candidate I can genuinely support, usually in a local race. No matter your politics, you've probably ...

While many countries embrace multiparty competition, others remain under dominant or single-party systems that shape governance and democracy in distinct ways. According to Britannica , party systems ...

It occurs to me that the two-party system does not work anymore. The Republicans voice an idea and the Democrats say no way. And the same is true the other way around. What happens? Not a thing. There ...