Trump’s third-term tease is a brilliant political strategy
Since Trump loves generating controversy that guarantees headlines, an illegal third term — or at least ambiguity about one — ...
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Inside An $11 Million Italian-Style Villa On The Potomac
There’s a balconied upper loggia that could hold half the Roman senate. The kitchen looks like ... orchestral concerts, art exhibitions, dance performances... “We built it as a residence ...
Arizona Billboard Blasts Trump and Musk: 'Screwing the American People'
A double-sided billboard in Arizona depicts Trump as Elon Musk's puppet the same week Trump used the White House to advertise ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil ... Federico Barocci's painting, Aeneas flees burning Troy, 1598. (Wikimedia/Free Domain) It picks ...
In Texas, private firms cash in on property tax late fees, piling debt onto homeowners
Texans who fall behind on property taxes face one of nation's most punitive systems, where private companies can tack up to ...
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City namesake Lafayette spoke truth to power against Napoleon, who Trump quoted. | Opinion
“Look at that outfit Napoleon’s wearing in this painting — kind of Roman emperor, right?” In his memoirs, Lafayette recounted how he turned down Napoleon's offer of a seat on the Senate ...
Greek Reporter20d
The Ancient Greek Invasion of Africa Under Agathocles the Tyrant
Diodorus Siculus recounts that the Carthaginian Senate, facing internal dissent and external threats, even considered negotiating for peace, fearing the collapse of their African holdings. An ...
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The Sports Riot That Nearly Destroyed Constantinople in 532 AD
The riot occurred during the rule of the Roman Emperor Justinian I and was largely instigated ... Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 In the face of an incensed mob, Justinian ...