Democracies, Jonathan Sumption warns, fail from within. Elections, politicians and supposedly independent courts may appear ...

The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the United States ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Academy Award winners, football legends, and fashion icons: all with Hungarian roots! Check out our article to find out which stars have Hungarian ancestry!

Compared to other Western democracies, the United States is still a profoundly religious country. Around 24% of Americans identify as evangelical Christians. Five US Supreme Court justices are ...

His presence also drew some of the Roman aristocracy, anxious to get what it could from free-spending 20th Century-Fox. Before he knew it, handsome Tyrone found himself living in a house turned ...

Newcastle University announced the discovery of Harold Godwinson's – aka King Harold II – residence in Bosham, a village on the coast of West Sussex, England, according to a news release published Jan ...

The “cult of Bismarck” in Germany is instructive on the cultural basis of Trump’s tariffs and, relatedly, cultural nationalism devoid of an economic rationale.

A period of stately-home visits in the 1980s led to the publication of her first book, Ancestral Jewels (1989), which traced the history of jewels owned by English aristocracy from the Tudors to ...

Archaeologists in the UK believe they have found the legendary lost residence of King Harold famously depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.

Want to see a destination from the best vantage? Up the altitude. Here are the top spots from which to appreciate the Eternal City ...