As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In some ways he’s a pastiche of several Roman leaders. Of course, Julius ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

All it does is create uncertainty,” the Oscar winner said of the president’s latest proposed tariffs for filming outside of ...

While millions are leaving the organized Christian faiths, they’re not abandoning spirituality. Instead, they’re seeking ...

By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.

“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate and People of Rome” was a phrase that once represented the essence of the Roman Republic’s political system. In Latin, the phrase was ...

Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), one of Rome’s greatest military leaders, was commanding the Roman legions in Gaul (modern-day ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of ...