Rome became an empire because Augustus understood power better than anyone before him. Instead of openly declaring dictatorship, he acted humble, returned authority “to the Senate,” then accepted it ...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman ...

I argued that the Constitution Review Committee rsquo;s report is predicated on a technocratic fantasy mdash;the belief that democratic deficits can be cured by transferring power from accountable ins ...

The value of education is unquantifiable. Anti-apartheid activist and first black President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela (now late), famously called education "the most powerful ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

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As the French Senate debates the assisted dying bill, Catholic bishops urge a rejection of the law, arguing that true ...

A bill that would make cursive instruction mandatory for New Jersey elementary school students is on Gov. Phil Murphy's desk. Will he sign it?

I n a 1988 video that surfaced during his 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont, ...

A nurse touches the hand of a patient in the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, ...

A study of limescale buildup in an early bathing facility at Pompeii has revealed that the water was replaced only once per ...