Elon Musk says he's starting a new party. Many have tried before to launch third parties with little success. Is a third party possible in our political system?

The most notable third party in America today is the Libertarian Party. Although the party has nearly 700,000 members and has come in third place in the past three presidential elections, ...

Meanwhile, notional support for a "third" political party remains high — 62% as of last year's Gallup Survey — yet no actually existing party outside the Democratic and Republican ...

The answer is America's two-party duopoly, a peculiar and long-lasting arrangement that has stifled political competition from other forces for more than a century.

Professor David Gillespie talked about the history and role of third parties in American politics. ... American History TV Saturdays on C-SPAN2; Book TV ...

Third parties and rogue presidential candidates have, of course, appeared from time to time and mattered. In the late 1800s the Prohibition and Socialist parties backed women's right to vote; by ...