Senators in the first century AD held much less power than their predecessors, although the Senate still had the right to confer the title of emperor. This alone ensured that the Senate and its ...

Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

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 ...