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 ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! American University History Professor Valerie French discusses the ancient Greek empire, its rise, and its impact on Western civilization. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; Photos via Getty Images, Timothy A. Clary / Pool/Getty Images) President Trump recently scored a ...

Democracy is in trouble here and abroad. According to the highly regarded World Values Survey data, most Americans under 60 do not consider it “absolutely essential” to live in a democracy. In fact, ...

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 ...

What drove the Ancient Greeks to fight wars, thousands of years ago? The answer may surprise you, because what we consider “good” and selfless reasons to fight paradoxically led to more wars than the ...

Pope arrives in Greece for second leg of trip Address centres on threats to democracy Warns against authoritarianism, populism Pope quotes ancient Greek philosophers and writers ATHENS, Dec 4 (Reuters ...

In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles’ teacher Gorgias ...