Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

Democracy is under threat around the world, but not because dictators are overthrowing elected governments and seizing power.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

Greece is engulfed in political turmoil as the second anniversary of the Tempi railway disaster where 57 people lost their ...

President Donald Trump is recruiting some of the brightest innovators in the private sector to tackle challenges facing our bloated federal government. A large part of that effort, the development of ...

This week’s roundup of Balkan Insight Premium stories includes the risks to Moldova of USAID’s funding freeze, a profile of ...

When Bishop Mariann Budde closed her sermon at the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21 she ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including the Forum of Peace in Rome, dedicated by Emperor Vespasian; the Library of ...

This year’s CPAC gathering has been a victory lap for Trump supporters, who have devoted their time at the event to praising ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. Over a thousand scrolls were found ...