Three-quarters of Americans say the U.S. political system needs major reforms or a complete overhaul, according to a survey published Friday. The CNN/SSRS poll found that 75 percent of U.S. adults ...

William Lyons is Director of Policy Partnerships for the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tennessee. He also served as chief ...

For decades, many voters grew accustomed to a certain set of norms that seemed to govern political systems like rules. But elite groups have lost the power they once had to enforce those norms, or ...

Lindsey Williams Drath is CEO of the Forward Party. The current structures of America’s political system encourage toxic polarization, extreme policy positions, and blatant self-interest. No wonder we ...

In the United States and Western Europe, many people support large scale, systemic change. Across four countries surveyed in November and December of last year, around four-in-ten or more in every ...

A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By ...