What his recent conflict with his own political party tells us about Gov. Kelly Armstrong's approach to public service.

In Athens, and hundreds of other Greek states, most native adult males were participatory citizens, who set policy in citizen councils and assemblies, judged legal cases as jurors on people’s ...

One of the weak points of the movement is the fact that the moments of resurgence have never obtained any concrete results. The general assembly of the neighborhood assemblies was one of those moments ...

This is the third of a four-part review of Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one here and part two here. The efflorescence of creativity we call classical Greece originated - not ...

The Athenian experiment is notable not merely for the talents it produced: three of the greatest tragedians – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides – and one of the finest comedians, Aristophanes.

The Georgia General Assembly used redistricting to split Athens-Clarke County into Republican districts, leaving it with one Democrat out of six state legislative seats. Athens is even more ...

The rise of Athens: An image showing the Acropolis of Athens, symbolizing its cultural and military power, with a shadow of Sparta looming in the background, representing the fear it instilled.

The Athenian populist Ephialtes soon pushed through more radical reforms in 462/1 B.C. that led to an even greater expansion of the power of the Athenian popular Assembly. His radicalization of the ...

In 415 BC, the Athenian assembly led by Alcibiades, voted to invade Sicily. The city-state of Segesta had promised huge financial aid in return for assistance against its enemy Selinus.

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Thus informed by the architect of the U.S. Constitution, I would, ...

Modern parallels: A split image juxtaposing ancient Athens and Sparta with modern-day representations of the US and China, illustrating the ongoing relevance of the Thucydides Trap in contemporary ...