Juan Cole

Rep. Brooks believes that silt from the Nile River in Egypt is part of the problem. He doesn’t know that the Nile was dammed up in 1958

When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?

It’s an ugly epithet with a dark history

Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

Kelly bizarrely defended Confederate slave drivers as having lived at a time before the evils of slavery were apparent to moral people

Indonesia hosted a conference of 70 prominent Muslim clergymen from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia to combat extremism

Despite the saber rattling, a large-scale ground war appears unlikely

He said that he wants his government to have a plan for moving toward a completely renewables-based society within six months