Party System

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system.

Hell runs on rules. Survive them. A dead‑end life ends even deader… and he wakes up in Hell’s lobby, where the clerks have horns and the staplers bite. The only way out is down: nine Circles, each a lethal, bureaucratic nightmare with bosses who measure your sins in triplicate. Good news—there’s a system. Bad news—it’s fair. He’s not alone. A by‑the‑book imp (assigned as his auditor) and a battle‑broken 13th‑century knight (who’s seen this game before) form a reluctant party. Together they’ll parse infernal contracts, kite monsters through kill‑zones, and raid ...

Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone - it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping.

Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiance. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it", Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education.

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.

Today’s raucous revolt against Washington and Wall Street is a classic populist uprising. Now two respected political pollsters show what it means for the future of American politics. The riotous tea parties and town hall meetings of last summer seemingly took everyone by surprise. They shouldn’t have. Populist movements have always arisen in times of economic hardship. Here, Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen explore the heart of the uprising that has thrown American politics into turmoil.

This study seeks to offer a possible correlation between the most important concepts of modern Geopolitics, thus facilitating a better understanding of its impact on human survival. Our main objective is to clarify the logical and cause-and-effect relationship between the decisions of rulers and the potential extinction of the planet-issues of great concern for the common person as well as for historians, political scientists, economists, and contemporary jurists. In this text, we aim to highlight the relationship between politics, power, and wars, and how, directly or indirectly, these ...

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court.

The America Party: Elon Musk’s Bold Revolution to Break the System takes readers into the firestorm that started on July 5, 2025, when Elon Musk launched his own political party. With over 1.25 million Americans backing his vision, Musk challenged the Republican and Democrat control of Washington. Author and adjunct professor Joseph Ejike Ojih follows the story from Musk’s explosive social media post to his plan for disrupting the 2026 midterms. With a mix of real quotes, platform details, and analysis, the book shows how Musk’s ideas—supporting Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, ...

One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States.

Recent elections in the advanced Western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges - from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, signaled a dramatic shift in the politics of the rich democracies. In Anti-System Politics, Jonathan Hopkin traces the evolution of this shift and argues that it is a long-term result of abandoning the post-war model of egalitarian capitalism in the 1970s.

How Trump's Black History Event Further Exposed The Democratic Party In this provocative and insightful analysis, independent political commentator Tim Black examines Donald Trump's 2025 Black History Month event, revealing the complex reality beneath partisan narratives. When Trump hosted Black influencers at the White House and announced plans for a National Garden of American Heroes featuring Black historical figures, the political establishment's reactions were predictable. But Tim Black offers something different: an unfiltered, principle-based assessment that challenges both parties. ...

The America Party is a scathing, unflinching manifesto for those who’ve outgrown the binary politics of fear and nostalgia. In a political environment calcified by two failing parties, The America Party offers a third pole—not a compromise, but a post-ideological overhaul. With biting clarity and sardonic realism, it dismantles the false choice between freedom and compassion, skewers corporate feudalism masquerading as capitalism, and outlines a new civic framework grounded in autonomy, localism, and technological transparency. This is a handbook for politically homeless Millennials and...

They were the political odd couple - the two most powerful men in the country, a pair who "couldn't be more different or more the same." For six years, Matthews was on the inside, watching the evolving relationship between President Reagan and Speaker of the House O’Neill. Drawing not only on his own remarkable knowledge but on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects, Matthews brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice.

Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography.

The end is here—and Alec West holds the fuse. After shattering the Ascension Gate and entering the Core World, Alec—now an Ascendant Warden—stands one irreversible choice away from saving Earth… or severing it forever. The Beacon’s heart is broken. The Void Dragon rules the skies. A one-minute countdown ticks across every reality shard. Worse, Harbinger champion Darius Kane wants the Beacon’s core—and the power to reshape existence—for himself. To stop the collapse, Alec must: Reunite his scattered party—Rina, Virgil, Cole, Mark, Eleanor, and Miranda—within a realm where...

What if the real fight for America didn’t start in Washington—but in a van parked behind a strip mall? When 64-year-old David Mercer, a former nonprofit founder now living in his car, uploads a video declaring he’s suing both major political parties for abandoning the people, he has no idea the spark he’s about to ignite. What begins as a desperate cry for help becomes a national movement—uniting veterans, teachers, mothers, whistleblowers, and coal miners across the country. Led by civil rights attorney Rosa Calderón, the class-action lawsuit shakes the foundations of American ...

Do the parties you attend never seem to change? Are you tired of hearing about people's jobs, social status, and kid's accomplishments? Are the words spewing out of their mouths annoying, self-centered, hypocritical, and full of BS. Bucky Binklewinker helps you get away from all of that non-sense by changing the conversation to something everyone enjoys. He asks questions about Humans, Animals, Science, Sports, and Other topics. These questions are thought provoking, interesting, and funny...and some of the answers might surprise you. Bucky also provides his own personal commentary after ...

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional collapse. But they offer a panoply of useful ideas and reforms, endorsing some solutions, like greater public participation and institutional restructuring, while debunking others, like independent or third-party candidates. Above all, they call on the media as well as the public to focus on the true causes of dysfunction rather than just throwing the bums out every election cycle.

ObamaCare 2014?!? Yes - 2014 is the year that Washington began to require everyone to maintain a certain level of health insurance. That means our law will then require each and every one of our citizens in the United States of America to purchase a health insurance product. Yes – in the land of the free & the home of the brave – our decision for health care will be forced upon us by our own government as a condition of citizenship. This would be a first in the history of our free America that such a requirement to purchase a private product will be forced upon us in order to create a ...