China’s communists seek to silence his powerful voice for freedom. He can do more good in Rome.

Caesar, Trump, and the future of American democracy. At the time, Rome was the greatest republic in human history and its institutions had survived several invasions and all kinds of disasters.

Before Caesar ruled the Roman Republic, this expansive stretch of territory was a democracy governed by a Senate and several high-ranking elected officials. While this early form of Roman ...

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to ...

The churches are not always consciously trying to end democracy and often believe instead that they are saving it. They try to save it by installing a strongman autocrat who favors their religious ...

Damaged stones that lead down to a historic Roman building were not vandalised, an authority has said. The rocks lie directly behind County Hall in Dorchester, Dorset, on a path leading down to the ...

No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated.

The huge economic divide between rich and poor today is unacceptable with so much wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, ...

Democracy, Congress, rule of law, separation of powers. They even picked an eagle for their national symbol. But it had to be Rome of the Republic, led by consuls, not Caesar.

Meeting last week for the first time as a regional legislature of their church, 210 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops cut loose with a thoroughly traditional attack on birth control, and then moved on to ...

In a democracy — as opposed to a dictatorship — the military should not be used to police citizens unless civilian law enforcement cannot or will not.