Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Congressional midterm election spending will likely hit a record $5 billion. But the spending masks the main problem with US campaign financing: who...
Day: November 5, 2018
Lars Ø Ramberg, “Palast des Zweifels” on the roof of the Palast der Republik, January 26. –...
Vercingetorix, atop his horse, surrenders to Julius Caesar. Painting by Lionel Royer. | Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons...
The “recent acceleration of voter suppression – fuelled by public fear, sanctioned by the judiciary, and supported...
The documentary Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook can be streamed online for free through Nov. 13, 2018. (Photo: Rigged) “The...
Decimation in Beaver’s Roman Military Punishments, by William Hogarth, c.1725 / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons Punishment by...
Kleroterion: This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
The Acropolis of Athens. Dominating the acropolis is the Parthenon, built between 447 and 432 BCE in the Age of Pericles, and...
The Athens Acropolis as seen from the Court of Cassation (Areopagus, i.e. the “Stone, or Hill, of Ares”)...