Americans may appreciate the rich culture and the brilliant minds of classical Athens. But rarely do they learn that much of the money fueling the fifth-century-B.C. Athenian renaissance derived from ...

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 ...

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, writes Paul Vallely ...

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 ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought.Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.Not only was ...

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.

Men and women both said the state of democracy was their most important issue, followed by the economy. Two in 10 women said abortion was most important, compared with 8% of men.