Zachary Michael Jack is Professor of English at North Central College. This interview is based on his new book, The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly: The Populist Who Debunked Shakespeare and Found Atlantis (Northern Illinois University Press, 2024). JF: What […]
Third Parties
American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview
While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.
Could we see a Manchin-Romney ticket in 2024?
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin may be launching a third-party bid for president in 2024 as the candidate of the bipartisan No Labels organization. And he also may be picking Mitt Romney as a running mate. Or maybe none of […]
Gallup: 63% of Americans want a third major political party
Here is Jeffrey Jones at Gallup: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do “such a poor job” of representing the American people that “a third major party […]
Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president
The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the […]
Is West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin running for president?
If Manchin runs as a third-party candidate there is a good chance that Donald Trump or another Republican will be the next president. Here is John Wagner at The Washington Post: Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) plans to headline an […]
Cornel West is now seeking the nomination of the Green Party
Last week West was running as the nominee of the People’s Party. Now he is seeking the Green Party nomination, a party on the ballot in more states than the People’s Party. So far he is the only declared Green […]
Is fusion voting the answer to our political partisanship?
Here is Blake Hounshell at The New York Times: When Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the Supreme Court majority in a landmark 1997 case, rejected a minor party’s demand that it be allowed to nominate candidates who were already […]
Andrew Yang is starting a third political party
After losing his bid for the 2020 Democratic nominee for president and dropping out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, businessman Andrew Yang is starting a new political party. Here is Alex Thompson at Politico: Yang is expected […]