It appears that Rep. Dan Newhouse has adopted the Roman Emperor Nero’s approach to governing: fiddle while the country ...

The question of how best to eliminate corruption has exercised the minds of philosophers as much as the practical drafters of legislation from Ancient Greek and Roman times. Within the political ...

For most people living in western democracies, we think of democracy as a natural order of things. As something that humans ...

Comedy is a cousin of tragedy. When comedy enacts a scene, it is like a traitor in the family. It makes us laugh, but it is often about something sad. I think this way about two characters in our ...

The author says that Trump, with the exception of cabinet level confirmations, has bypassed Congress at every step and ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

The constitution of the Roman republic was characterised by the ... data of being "a corrupt judge protecting corruption". So democracy's delicate balancing act is under serious pressure.

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

“Cathaoirleach Daly spoke of the reform and restoration of local democracy in the Programme for Government, and as that was one of my key aims for the General Election - along with the ...

Madison understood this very well because he was a student of history. He had studied the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans who had real reservations about democracy. Roman culture had been ...

in the ancient Roman Republic, the votes of high-ranking officials and the wealthy carried more weight than those of ordinary citizens. We no longer find this acceptable. Similarly, as democracy ...

But as demonstrated by the Trump administration’s takedown of the U.S. Agency for International Development, disinformation, amplified by social media, poses an even greater threat to democracy ...