I n about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senato ...

As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn ...

Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator. Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought ...