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 ...