“Launching a new national political party in the United States may be more difficult than sending a man to Mars,” the New York Times reports.“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who last year was the nation’s biggest known political donor, now says that he is trying to do both. But while the effort to achieve interplanetary travel has made slow progress for over 20 years, the past several decades of American politics are littered with abandoned attempts to disrupt the two-party system.”For members: Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Is Doomed