As the courts wrestle with various challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act, Congress is also taking an interest.  Last week, the House ...

In the middle were the equestrians, the plebeians, and the freedmen (slaves who had gained their freedom). The slaves had the lowest social status. Many Roman slaves lived lives of unimaginable ...

Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

In Italy, it is not uncommon to find streets and neighborhoods named Cincinnatus, but even more familiar is the name of a ...

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the United States ...

The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

and when one Spurius Maelius was accused of winning popularity among the plebs by selling grain at a low price during a serious famine, with a view to making himself king. During the collapse of the ...