A Greek Column: ‘The Talk of the Town’ Is the Americans, Tourism Chief Says ‘We demonstrated that we are a safe destination and I think the no. 1 reason for people to travel and fly nowadays is health ...

Four years ago, Barack Obama chose to use ten, grandiose, Greek columns as the backdrop for his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. The staging was a rather clumsy effort ...

A few weeks ago, in the seminar I teach on architecture and film, we screened The Fountainhead, the 1949 classic drawn from the book of the same title by Ayn Rand. Its protagonist, played with ...

Romney also greeted supporters at the event as he often does, but this time his handshaking was interrupted by four young Hispanic attendees who chanted "Latino voters veto Romney." ...

ATHENS — A neighborhood habitué can always tell when a tourist is on the verge of desperation. The one I spotted the other day was gripping an oversize and essentially useless guidebook like a life ...

He is Barack Obama — minus the fake Greek columns. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress cannot help but reveal their true loyalties in the desperate throes of a global meltdown.

It’s up to voters to decide whether Barack Obama will win the White House, but when he accepts the Democratic nomination at Invesco Field, it will look as if he’s already there. Throughout the ...

But Greek columns and Italianate windows don’t make a building look more American to me. The trap is falling into a debate over taste or style.

The Greek columns may be banished and the "hope" and "change" signs gone, but President Barack Obama's pitch to American voters at the Democratic National Convention this week will have echoes of ...