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How to fix democracy: Break up the Democratic and Republican parties, experts say Christopher Ingraham © Ting Shen/Bloomberg Members of Congress, led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) are considering legislation that would end two-party politics. The Fair Representation Act would create multi-member House districts in states with more than one representative, require those districts to be drawn by independent commissions to minimize gerrymandering, and allow voters to choose representatives in those districts using a ranked-choice voting system. Dissatisfaction with two-party pol...

Why America doesn't have the third party it wants Nick Troiano, opinion contributor © Greg Nash Why America doesn't have the third party it wants On the heels of a second historic impeachment trial, new polls from Gallup show a record number of Americans identify as independent (50 percent) and favor a new political party (62 percent). In any other industry, if half of customers disliked the only two major brands and nearly two thirds of customers desired an alternative, there would be a new product on the shelf, yesterday. Not so in the politics industry, where the reignin...

Lee Drutman wrote about Murkowski's liberation by ranked-choice voting for the Washington Post.

comments The mob smashed windows then stormed into the U.S. Capitol. They brandished flags that supported Donald Trump and the confederacy, and messages that proclaimed "stop the steal" and "no more bullshit." They created an armed standoff at the doors of the House floor, disrupted the constitutional process of certifying the presidential election, and forced lawmakers to barricade themselves behind closed doors fortified with chairs and file cabinets. Then, many hours later, as a nation reeled, after news anchors spoke of sedition and insurrection in our own capitol, even a coup, determined...

The most important fix for democracy is one that would unwind our party system organized around incompatible visions of national identity.