“Bread and circuses” was the formula that ancient Rome’s rulers hoped would keep the restless natives happy. Two millennia later, residents of the Eternal City just want their buses to turn up on time ...

After centuries of instability, the Western Roman Empire ended not with one final battle, but through a political shift that left much of its old system intact. Odoacer removed the young emperor ...

America is approaching a major milestone: its semiquincentennial, which is a fancy word that scarcely anyone knows how to ...