His solution was to form a general assembly of all Athenian free men, with each man having one vote - a type of government we now call direct democracy. These men would then meet regularly to ...

Eleanor Roosevelt by Yousuf Karsh, 1944, National Portrait Gallery ... of Human Rights and securing its ratification by the General Assembly in 1948. “We stand today at the threshold of a ...

Ohio voters sent the state’s Democratic Party and its allies into the wilderness Tuesday, unseating Sen. Sherrod Brown, ...

Valdecy Urquiza, Interpol's vice president for the Americas and head of international cooperation at the Brazilian federal police, poses for a portrait at the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will double funding for Britain’s border security agency and treat people-smuggling gangs ...

With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and ...

A scarce bronze Assay Commission medal from 1958 featuring Dwight Eisenhower and themed from his "Atoms for Peace" speech sold for $2,040 ...

“Everyone thinks President Trump is coming back,” he says of a recent trip to the U.N. General Assembly, “and they wanted to ...

So, when deciding what to give their parents Maria and Roger as a gift, they chose a family portrait with a touching twist. Click the video below to see the tearful unveiling of an artist's ...

Joseph Kernan’s portrait hangs above Holcomb in his office ... Crone worked to make judicial pay independent from the Indiana ...

A Sinn Féin Assembly employee who was suspended by the party after admitting to involvement in the damage of a portrait of a DUP Lord Mayor is the son of a Stormont MLA. Prominent members of Sinn ...

Valdecy Urquiza, Interpol’s vice president for the Americas and head of international cooperation at the Brazilian federal ...