The Apollo Chamber Players rehearse with the HSPVA Chorale. In embarking on a season titled We the People, the Apollo Chamber Players set out to explore the core concepts of America’s founding and how ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

Last month I wrote an article that looked back at two of the most important foreign relations concepts of the 1990s with the idea of evaluating them in the present ...

People all over the world feel economically and culturally insecure. Indian economist Pranab Bardhan says liberal leaders aren’t paying enough attention to that, and that’s led to a growing ...

Researchers have carried out a new comprehensive assessment on how different people around the world understand the concept of ‘democracy.’ The results demonstrate that -overwhelmingly- people in ...

It’s a testament to the contradictions of our present barbarity that while the whole world recognizes that crimes against humanity, if not the crime of genocide itself, are being committed by the ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

There’s considerable talk about “democracy” and “fascism” these days, as the poles between which our society is supposedly suspended. But what do those words actually mean? If we admit, as I think we ...

If you access any Chinese state media or pro-state social media published in late 2021, you will be bombarded with attacks on US President Joe Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ and relentless insistence ...