Its global reputation may be as the birthplace of democracy but standards in modern Greek politics are slipping, critics say, ...

Thrasybulus was an Athenian general who restored democracy after tyranny, rebuilt Athens, and opposed Sparta's dominance.

Athens’ victory at Marathon sparked fear that drove expansion and the fragile evolution of Athenian democracy.

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Instability driven by climate change could threaten democracies in the future, even though representative governments are best equipped to provide solutions, experts gathered at ...

In December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

IT IS ONE of the most lurid descriptions in literature of a society collapsing under the shock of a virulent disease. In 430BC, the second year of its war with Sparta, the vibrant city of Athens was ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

Six months of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more than 115,000 deaths, staggering unemployment, closed schools, overrun food banks and renewed attention to the “pandemic within a ...