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How Do Legislators Think Democracy Should Work? Evidence from the United States and Germany
What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...
Greek Reporter1dOpinion
What Ancient Greek Democracy Can Teach Modern America
The legacy of Greek democracy—reflected in history, mythology, theater, and even the Olympic Games—offers timeless lessons ...
Greece’s dark past is uncovered after 33 bodies are found in a civil war-era mass grave
Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...
Disinformation and other forms of ‘sharp power’ now sit alongside the ‘hard power’ of tanks and ‘soft power’ of ideas in policy handbook
These three concepts of power are more than just academic abstractions. They are real-world tools to, respectively, coerce, ...
Greek City Times3d
The Nazi Occupation of Athens – April 27, 1941: The Swastika Over the Acropolis
German forces entered Athens, raising the Nazi swastika atop the Acropolis after lowering the Greek flag, marking a dark ...
What Greek tragedy could teach us about the decline of our democracy
My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...
Greek Reporter5d
The Elite Special Forces of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...