As Americans go to the polls Tuesday, the U.S. presidential standard bearers describe a nation whose very soul hangs in the ...

To understand, democracy requires an appreciation of two basic factors. The first centers on the fundamental principles of a ...

It made its decisions concerning our public vote, the heartbeat of our democracy, according to its own “criteria ... not ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

The temptation of pessimism is real. In the face of what feels like an endless war and an onslaught of propaganda, it is ...

Concern about the health of democratic governments has been rising worldwide, and one of the key metrics researchers use to measure the robustness of a democracy is its ability to conduct free and ...

From the heart of Mesopotamia to the heights of the Roman Empire, ancient civilizations have left an indelible mark on the ...

President-elect Donald Trump bills himself as a strongman. NPR's Leila Fadel asks philosopher, professor and author Jason Stanley why that appeals to American voters.

These politicians are blind to Homer, Plato and Aristotle. They use Turkey as a ... the use of science-based decisions, democracy, the protection of the natural world, and good life.

He won for many reasons. One of them was that a formidable number of Americans, from different angles, said the state of democracy was a prime concern. The candidate they chose had campaigned ...