Today, democracies continue to grapple with declining trust and institutional corruption. Athens: Birth of Democracy examines ...

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This Greek Independence Day, we commemorate the wisdom and resolve of the Greek Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where ...

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 ...

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad. According to Dio, one form of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...