Religious leaders demanding "moral" budget, arrested while praying outside Capitol, as Senate considers mega-bill ...

The Supreme Court determined parents can “opt out” of letting their children see LGBTQ books in the classroom.

In a dissenting opinion, Sotomayor argued that the decision would “impose impossible administrative burdens on schools” by ...

Sure, you’d expect the best Roman games to feature a great deal of military might, after all war is what forged the Imperium ...

Faced with growing inequality and social strain, the plebeian council increasingly directed its energy toward social relief for ordinary citizens. Though no longer revolutionary, its institutional ...

During his nomination hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Roman Pipko, President Donald ...

Members of Italy’s local and national governments will be the main participants in events for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Government Leaders on June 21–22.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is making waves in Florida around immigration. Here's what's happening.

Some say politics is poetry. But much of it is metaphor. As a disturbing symbol of the extreme disrespect being shown Latinos ...

No kings’ would effectively be the watchword through the Roman republic’s entire history. ‘Rex’ was a word the Romans hated.

The Roman Republic was originally a system of shared political authority. The Senate, the people and elected magistrates shared power. But in the first century BC, powerful and charismatic figures ...

The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. ... When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god.