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Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
We should appreciate anything that shakes the confidence of both major parties.
Supporting restraints on government only for your opponents is a recipe for continued conflict.
The president’s Philadelphia “threats” speech gets thumbs-down from the public.
Andrew Yang's rebooted Forward Party glosses over Americans’ conflicting values and preferences.
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When people are no longer willing to lose at the polls, it’s time to make elections less important.
Could paying less attention to politics be better for you, your relationships, and society?
Too many of your friends and neighbors are tribal idiots, but they're not the worst tribal idiots in recent memory, by any means.
The partisan factions aren't fighting for anything more than the power to destroy each other.
The Michigan congressman is carving a path as an independent unburdened by the two-party system
The Michigan congressman carves a path as an independent unburdened by the two-party system
Baffled by and fearful of each other, the political tribes remain consumed by loathing and dedicated to total victory.
Scholars try to explain today's political warfare.
It's a given that many senators are acting in bad faith. But what about the rest of us?
Independents now make up a plurality of the public.
Many Americans don't care about who is right or wrong; they only care about crushing political enemies.
Respect for the overall government is waning. Good.
So long as anything resembling legitimate elections continue to be held, no political coalition will gain a permanent lock on the future.
Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina says it's media and political elites who live in ideological bubbles, not regular Americans.
The libertarian congressman says the internet is poised to destroy politics as we know it.
Commit to principles and ideals, not politicians.
The reward centers of the brain light up when partisans reject information that contradicts their political preferences, the same way drug addicts' brains do.
Gestures and good will count in a climate of fear and ridicule.
Mark Penn points out you might even get peanut butter avocado at an ice cream parlor.
Both sides want to chip away at your civil liberties, even if sometimes they argue about it.
Why are historically low numbers of voters identifying as Democratic or Republican? Because they can.
Shock a former political operative was less than honest about his relationship with his former bosses
Behold how intractable tribalism can make a problem
"Their Country, Right or Wrong!"
Which factions will dominate the two parties as 2016 approaches?
For libertarians it may seem like winter is always coming
Long-serving justices are far likelier to be impervious to fleeting populist bugaboos and the political pressures of the day.
It's easy to make fun of No Labels; their empty pieties offer no real alternative to business as usual.
Claims he's not a blindly partisan Democrat
50th anniversary of the March on Washington
As Republicans blew a seeming opportunity, the federal government remained blessedly divided