Lawyer Jim Walden wants to run for mayor in November on neither the Democratic nor Republican lines, which is fine, as he is free to create a separate ballot line. However, Walden wants to use the ...

First, Wallace’s American Independent party had to get on the ballot, state by state. The drive began in California, where the campaign needed to register 66,000 Californians as party members.

The suggestion that would-be leaders of the left should abandon the Democratic Party picks at a political scab that has never fully healed. Mr. Sanders, 83, a longtime independent, has had a tense ...