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Save this story for later. Two years after a popular uprising ended two millennia of dynastic rule in Iran, the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini scolded the country’s squabbling politicians for “biting one another like scorpions.” Four decades later, on the eve of a Presidential election, on Friday, Iranian politics are no less contentious. At the first of three campaign debates, the former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei vowed that his first act, if elected, would be to charge the leading centrist candidate, Abdolnaser Hemmati, who was seated a few feet away...

While it may seem like ancient history, Roman law has in fact had a huge influence on the way laws have been created around the world.

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. Napoleon: Cancel or Commemorate? Napoleon: Cancel or Commemorate? On the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the empreror’s reinstatement of slavery in 1802, saying it was a “a betrayal of the spirit of the Enlightenment.” It was the first time that any president had denounced Bonaparte’s overturning his country’s 1794 abolition law. In France and its colonies, slavery wasn’t outlawed for good until 1848. But Macron didn’t shy away from praising the storied sovereign, claiming t...

The writer says Filipinos seem more eager for paternalistic leaders than to become full participants in democratic politics themselves.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The writer, Richard Heydarian, says Filipinos seem more eager for paternalistic leaders than to become full participants in democratic politics themselves.