Making resolutions may not be as modern a practice as people tend to think, however. Historians often consider Ancient Babylonians to be the first people to have made New Year's resolutions 4000 ...

That said, despite the tight timeline, the current expectation is that a government shutdown most likely is averted, or that any shutdown is brief. A continuing resolution must be passed by the ...

The practice of making New Year’s resolutions may be done with optimistic ... professor of Roman history in the department of classics at Royal Holloway, University of London.