third parties

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.

The most important third party in the history of American politics is one you may never have heard of before.

On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

A radical third party had a new idea for selecting a presidential candidate, and it’s still in use today.

The former pro wrestler says his surprise election as Minnesota governor paved the way for Donald Trump. Now he looks back “shamefully” on their past ties.

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.

A conversation on party politics and the durability of our current political system.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Remember Perot?

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.

Public outcry over whistleblower William Morgan's disappearance gave rise to the Anti-Masonic Party, which nominated a candidate for president in 1832.

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the shifting sands of American politics.

Understanding Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics.

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.