Commenting on Trump's head-spinning rush to mend U.S. relations Russia and its dictator Vladimir Putin, Hrytsak said: “This ...

Ukraine betrayal | Fact-check Fox | U.S. decline | No cheers. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for March 11, 2025.

Capitalism is in crisis around the world, whether in its free market form as in the US and Europe, or its state capitalist form as in China.

Trump, rather as Caligula or Nero did, will leave the stage to the sound of boos as well as applause; but he will do so as the kind of leader whom Suetonius would no doubt have enjoyed hugely ...

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero ...

The Democrats and the rest of the world seem shell shocked. Is this the anarchy and arbitrariness of a Caligula or Nero, or are these the opening salvoes of an authoritarian attempt at state capture?

So, now Nero is out, and Caligula is back in but this time that soiled lunatic has gathered a posse; an odd hit squad of Christian Nationalists and technofascists who seem to be committed to using ...

Such a claim says nothing new. History has a list of such despots. Pol Pot, Mussolini, Kurunmi, Caligula, Nero. They are impotent without arms and state power. But Babangida is a special kind of ...