What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Thrasybulus was an Athenian general who restored democracy after tyranny, rebuilt Athens, and opposed Sparta's dominance.

Ancient Greek lawmaker Solon of Athens wrote one of the first Greek Constitutions, and his ideas remain relevant in today's ...

In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It ...

In America today, an impeached former leader, whose lies threaten the very structure of democracy, is maneuvering to return to power. This has happened before, with dire consequences. In ancient ...

In December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

Where should we look for lessons on sustaining democracy? In today’s Academic Minute, Jeff Miller of SUNY New Paltz turns to the past to find out. Miller is a professor in the department of political ...

Six months of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more than 115,000 deaths, staggering unemployment, closed schools, overrun food banks and renewed attention to the “pandemic within a ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...