Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

Trump’s War on Somalia: Bombings, Slashing Food Aid, Promoting Climate Change

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

If fossil fuels were competitive, Trump wouldn’t have to try so hard to stall permitting for new wind and solar projects

Children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since Jan. 1

Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.

That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry

Puerto Ricans are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for

The revolution and its social and political freedoms offered them a space to question everything, including how they relate to Islamic teachings

Gemenne said that we are passing from a relatively stable climate system to an unstable one, where extreme weather events will multiply

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal