Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...

What led to the demise of the Roman Republic? Experts now believe that the eruption of a remote Alaskan volcano may be partly to blame. The Okmok volcano erupted early in the year 43 BC, spewing ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

A smattering of journalists and political commentators mocked the president this week after he boasted accurately that the United States and Italy share a political heritage that can be traced all the ...