NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE TAKING PLACE IN ROOM 185, FROM 12:50 P.M.-2 P.M.

With the 2026 midterm elections fast approaching, both parties have begun to assemble their talking points and draw their respective political lines in the sand in what has come to be a predictable partisan choreography. But things were not always this way. In his critically acclaimed book, Breaking the Two-Party Doop Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Lee Drutman argues that the American political binary is a novel development, and an unstable one. And he argues that there is a path forward through which we can reclaim the rich multiparty democracy which has characterized much of American history.

Join ACS for a discussion with Lee Drutman, senior fellow for Political Reform at New America, about the “Two-Party Doom Loop,” where it came from, and what we can all do about it.