For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel wreaths, Roman eagles, and the fasces. These icons, carved into our government ...

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots.

The new Greek government last week solemnly decreed that, under threat of punishment, Greek youngsters must henceforth give up their seats on buses to clergymen, pregnant women and invalids. Of ...

Greece's conservative New Democracy party won a majority in election's Sunday, handing its leader another term as prime minister and inflicting a major defeat on their leftist rival.

Tsipras’s “somersault”, or kolotoumba as the Greeks called it, was a costly gambit that set back the economic recovery and ...

When the Greek Revolution began in 1821, Thanassis Petsalis was only 19 years old. He studied law, became one of the best defense lawyers in postrevolutionary Greece, and in his late 60s served as ...

Ever since they seized power 18 months ago, Greece's ruling colonels have waged a remarkably successful campaign to secure international acceptance of their stern rightist regime. Though their ...

Greek democracy is unhealthy when most people can’t afford olive oil One political party dominates in Greece but has so far shown little sign of finding a solution to rising hardship ...

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks.

Greece's ruling New Democracy party suffered a setback in Sunday's runoff elections for regional governors and mayors, losing the country's two largest cities and five of the six regional contests.

Democracy in dark times: Hopeful lessons from Greece’s 50-year odyssey The country’s half-century milestone cements that only democracy and international cooperation can provide solutions to ...