With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Monday, we contemplate the impact his administration could have on our democracy. Historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Timothy Snyder have drawn from ...
It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.
Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...
Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...