Continuing concern for our democratic republic has left me again looking back at the world’s first democracy in Athens. Athen ...

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

In April 1967, Greece’s fragile democracy collapsed overnight. A group of middle-ranking army officers, led by Colonel ...

The author is a professor of archaeology at the University of Toronto. Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a ...

Greek journalist Elias Demetracopoulos was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history.

In Greece, clashes erupted between police and protesters this weekend at rallies marking the one-year anniversary of the police killing of a teenage boy. The fatal shooting of fifteen-year-old ...

The leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn, once Greece's third largest political party, were sentenced to prison on Wednesday ...