Letter: Athenian democracy was highly questionable Published 4 December 2024 From Stuart Leslie, Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia No one should base ideas of democratic reform on the belief ...

On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment. America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy. Americans may ...

USA's most iconic status at risk? Global watchdog warns U.S. could lose democracy status, flags Donald Trump’s recent actions as authoritarian 1mo ...

Democracy: Whose idea was this? People power is messy – just ask a British politician. But they're in good company. Even the Ancient Greeks who invented democracy couldn't agree on what it meant ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr, recently tapped as Donald Trump's secretary of health and human services, was once a vocal critic of the former president. Recordings reveal Kennedy compared Trump's rhetoric ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been neck-and-neck in polls for weeks, a trend that's not changing according to a par of surveys released on Sunday.

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th ...

The state of democracy and the economy in the U.S. were the top issues on the minds of voters as they cast ballots in the presidential election, according to preliminary results from the NBC News ...