There is little in modern politics that was not done two thousand years ago, and so what happened in Athens and Rome offers lessons for us today. The Greeks were the most inventive, developing ...

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BUDAPEST, Hungary — This capital city doesn't have the trappings of an autocracy. There are no tanks on the streets or intelligence agents stamping out whispers of dissent. While strolling through the ...

It has been more than 70 years almost that the sun of European colonialism set, but the world map that we see today is a stark reminder of the imperial role. While straight lines divide deserts in ...