Since the mid-1850's, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated the American political scene. As pervasive as it has become, however, the two-party system is not an inherent part of the federal ...

The Republican judge who is seeking to throw out more than 60,000 votes in order to win a seat on the state Supreme Court ...

Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a Republican-leaning area of the state. State Sen. Vincent Hughes joins Morning Joe to discuss the special ...

The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this ...

Anderson, a Roanoke native who lives in Woodbridge, is the second political party leader in Virginia to depart this year. Democratic Party Chair Susan Swecker said last month that she will retire ...

A House hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after an exchange between a Republican and a Democratic committee member over the GOP chair’s misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride. At the hearing hosted by the ...

But many Senate Democrats objected to the legislation on the grounds that Republicans crafted a bill without Democratic input. “It doesn't feel like Republicans have actually undertaken their ...

The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the ... in the midterms if voters don’t think we care about work.” Republicans, too, face their own branding problems, according to the ...

A Republican Utah senator says he’s had enough of a party that he believes is becoming disconnected from Utahns and straying from true conservative and freedom-focused principles. Standing in ...

The bill passed in a nearly party ... Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro criticized the measure. "It is not a simple stop-gap that keeps the lights on and the doors open. This is Republican ...

CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein said Monday that the Democratic Party was in its weakest position since the 1980s, the Reagan-Bush era, as the party continues to determine its best way ...