There are two main political parties in the USA – the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Unlike political parties in the UK, US political parties are not as tied to an ideology.

so does their importance in the US political system. Overall, minorities remain under-represented in US politics. Historically, fewer black Americans and other minorities have turned out to vote ...

This, the West believes, helps voters to fulfill their personal and national aspirations, and the political parties, which ...

When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a ...

In a span of 15 hours, the world got another close look at our so-called “justice system” in America, and has sentenced us to ...

political and environmental systems. That said, we do not expect such caps being part of the next US president’s plans. After all, Trump’s previous tax cuts were said to have overwhelmingly ...

Movies skewer and satirize a political system that dearly deserves both. They can warn us of the dangers of hungering for power and lay bare the human foibles and egos at the heart of it all.

While New Dealers were often accused of playing politics with relief, social welfare system created by the New Deal (still largely in place today) is more often maligned for being bureaucratic than ...

Whereas that earlier work derived three models of political communication systems, including four dimensions along which they could be compared, from analysis of 18 advanced capitalist democracies in ...