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Juan Cole

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GOP Rep. Seeks to Block Tlaib Palestine Congressional Delegation

GOP Rep. Seeks to Block Tlaib Palestine Congressional Delegation

Juan Cole

Babin votes with Trump so often he might as well be Trump.

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Top 6 Things Wrong with Trump denying Pelosi Gov't Transport

Top 6 Things Wrong with Trump denying Pelosi Gov’t Transport

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s petty cancellation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip on military transport to Brussels and Afghanistan was clearly his revenge for her cancellation of his State of the Union message until he ends the shutdown of the government. Here are the top 5 things wrong with this step: […]

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No, US Troop Deaths in Syria don't Contradict Defeat of ISIL

No, US Troop Deaths in Syria don’t Contradict Defeat of ISIL

Juan Cole

And Stop Playing Politics with the Lives of Military Personnel

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Stateless Palestinians Seek Full State Membership at UN, Defying Trump & Netanyahu

Stateless Palestinians Seek Full State Membership at UN, Defying Trump & Netanyahu

Juan Cole

That the Palestinian leadership is going ahead with the application, moreover, shows the depths of their despair

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Thanks to our Generous Supporters

Thanks to our Generous Supporters

Juan Cole

Many, many thanks to our our generous supporters for a successful fundraising season. We got over halfway to a very ambitious goal, and certainly you made the campaign a great success by any measure. 2019 is very likely going to be an epochal year. We could well see a constitutional crisis or more than one, […]

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My "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires" now a  Bold Type Book

My “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires” now a Bold Type Book

Juan Cole

And just a reminder: The New York Times Book Review has a glowing review of my new book

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GOP must reject Trump's Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King's Racism

GOP must reject Trump’s Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King’s Racism

Juan Cole

Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to cross over from a more subtle sort of dog whistle

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Who's Running John Bolton to Start a war with Iran? He worried even Mad Dog Mattis

Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a war with Iran? He worried even Mad Dog Mattis

Juan Cole

Ironically, when Mattis first met Bolton, he joked that he had heard that he was “the Devil.”

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Trump's Erratic Foreign Policy in 2019: Will it put us in More Danger?

Trump’s Erratic Foreign Policy in 2019: Will it put us in More Danger?

Juan Cole

President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies, which drove the global economy into chaos last year and caused a stir in the international community.

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