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The historian explains why parties are proof of democratic health, despite being widely loathed
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The party is trying to talk less about pronouns, more about prices

John Prideaux, our US editor, reports from the road on why local politics still works

Particularly by the state

Ranking candidates by order of preference would better reflect the will of the people, writes Eric Maskin

The two traditional parties of government are under siege as never before

Yet it is particularly valuable now