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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Adelaide MP Steve Georganas met with the Greek Parliament Speaker in Athens ahead of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary ...

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 ...

I t’s approaching midnight and it’s still 37 degrees celsius. Heat is radiating through the stones I’m sitting on in the ancient amphitheatre of Epidaurus.I’m here on a theatre retreat ...

Ancient Athens had fallen because the demagogue Cleon had seduced the Athenian assembly into continuing the war with the Peloponnesian League; the Roman Republic had fallen because the people were ...

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 ...

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.

“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, ...