America’s 2-party system seems weird, but adding a 3rd party could make voter representation worse
By Robin E. Best, Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, The Conversation · November 10, 2026
A scholar of parties and elections explains how the ‘umbrella’ Democratic and Republican parties mask differences in political preferences – and may represent voters just as well as multiparty systems.
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US national debt keeps rising after years of tax cuts – and this will make policymaking all the more difficult
By Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Public Policy Researcher, University of Denver · 2h ago
When a Walmart closes, what happens to nearby stores?
By Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Computational Data Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Preetinder Kaur, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Guelph, Pushpinder Gill, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University · 2h ago
COP31: Governments are failing to rein in emissions from their own power plants
By Don Grant, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder · 2h ago