China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn ...

At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” U.S. House Representative Jasmine ...

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American democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, ...

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Single-member districts are the real issue. Political competition is a function of electoral rules. Just as a duopolistic market does not come about by chance, a party system confined to only two ...

Drutman is partly right: the “two-party doom loop” threatens American democracy and structural reform is needed. But his framework can’t explain how authoritarian movements have seized governing power ...

Andreas Eshete, who died last week at age seventy-nine, was one of the greatest minds of Ethiopia’s finest generation of thinkers. A child of the revolutionary movement, he was a reflective political ...

Drutman can’t possibly be right that the two-party system is “the whole ballgame.” The hyperpartisanship and dysfunctional politics that concerns him is happening not just in countries with two-party ...