Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and ...

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 ...

With so much thrown now at our democracy, I have been looking back to see how the world’s first democracy in Athens survived.

In America today, an impeached former leader, whose lies threaten the very structure of democracy, is maneuvering to return to power. This has happened before, with dire consequences. In ancient ...

Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

No one should base ideas of democratic reform on the belief that ancient Athenian “democracy” was an ideal form of government (5 October, p 32). Athens hardly invented democracy: there were very large ...

Much of Earth’s population has been voting this year. Where democracies are strained and stressed, is there room for optimism? By The New York Times This article is from a special report on the Athens ...

It was September 26, 1989 when prominent politician Pavlos Bakoyannis was assassinated by three members of the November 17 ...

MILAN (AP) — American historian Josiah Ober, whose studies of Athenian democracy provide insights into current political crises, and U.S. immunologist Carl H. June, who works on gene-modified cell ...