Elon Musk isn’t the first wealthy businessman to propose a third political party in the U.S. How his "America Party" will compare to other third parties in U.S. history remains to be seen. A day after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The billionaire said in a post on his social media platform, X, July 5 that he is creating the America Party because Americans are ...

On a special episode (first released on July 23rd) of The Excerpt podcast: Musk isn’t the first billionaire to try. From Ross Perot to Teddy Roosevelt, third parties in the U.S. have a long ...

The most successful third party in U.S. history was Lincoln's upstart GOP. Its issue was slavery. What would Musk's America Party stand for? (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) “Today, the America Party ...

For nearly its entire 250-year history, the United States has been a nation of two major political parties. Elon Musk’s suggestion that he might found a new “America Party” has been met with ...

Like a bad penny, the idea of a third party regularly shows up in American political discourse. It never comes to anything. Opportunistically, Yang wants to team up with Musk, but says he wants to ...

Elon Musk has announced he is forming a new political party, and he did it the day after President Donald Trump signed the megabill that the pair have publicly sparred over for weeks. The billionaire ...