For Aldo Cazzullo, writer and deputy editor of the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, President-elect Donald Trump’s return to ...

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Cato the Elder was a senator during the Roman Republic. After a trip to Carthage, he became convinced that Carthage was a ...

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Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and the other, ...

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Cato the Elder was a senator during the Roman Republic. After a trip to Carthage, he became convinced that Carthage was a ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates across time In the ancient Chinese calendar, the year corresponding to AD1 ...