Educator Ross Rosenfeld tells The New Republic that Trump is exploiting so-called “emergency” powers to create a permanent ...

The office of dictator was created in the early Roman Republic, when it granted a single person—a prominent and trusted citizen—immense power in times of emergency. The dictator effectively became the ...

Porta Collina (Hill Gate) was one of the entrances to Ancient Rome, opened, according to tradition, by King Servius Tullius ...

If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century B.C.E ... aristocratic overreach and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the ...