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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist

Norman Solomon

Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins

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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

11/27/2025 By H. Patricia Hynes

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

11/27/2025 By Juan Cole

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“The folks that are taking the punches are the ones that can’t really afford to take the punches,” said Tuthill, president of Royal Food Import

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How Global Power Shifts are Playing out in the Red Sea Region of the Mideast

How Global Power Shifts are Playing out in the Red Sea Region of the Mideast

The Red Sea borders some of the world’s most volatile regions: the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the the Indo-Pacific area

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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

Dr. Abedini was detained on November 22 by ICE before boarding a flight to attend the MESA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

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Donald Trump
Ozymandias on the Potomac:  Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

These days Donald Trump’s Washington abounds with monuments to overblown imperial grandeur and plans for more

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The Ecocide of Gaza

The Ecocide of Gaza

Well before October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip had progressively been isolated from the West Bank and the outside world overall

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Iran
“All the Saints and Sages:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

How long will sages debate if this world is eternal or created? / Once I have left it, why should I care, either way?

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

I have been in higher education as a student or professor for over five decades, and I have never seen things as bad as they are now.

Juan Cole

Arab World
Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords

Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords

The Saudi leader’s plan to normalise with Israel comes with a price. He wants to see a “clear path [towards a] two-state solution”

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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

As it turns out the high-tech sector that has produced so many billionaires isn’t pro-environment; instead simply pro-billionaire

Juan Cole

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