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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)
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The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)

H. Patricia Hynes

Health inequalities cannot be eliminated without addressing the injustice that contribute to weathering – the physical toll

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

Mamdani: “For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

01/02/2026 By Common Dreams

Gaza:  Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

Gaza: Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, as Israel restricts Shelter Materials

01/02/2026 By International Middle East Media Center

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Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]

Juan Cole

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States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

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Juan Cole

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Voters in Libya:  Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Voters in Libya: Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Saturday morning, 2.8 million registered voters in Libya went to the polls to choose a parliament for the first time since 1965. One woman standing […]

Juan Cole

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Omar Khayyam (492)  “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and  mill works,  and long walkways to their mansions– […]

Juan Cole

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Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]

Juan Cole

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States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare

States with fewest Passports most Opposed to Obamacare

Only about one third of Americans have passports, and if it weren’t for the post- September 11 requirement that one travel to Canada and Mexico […]

Juan Cole

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Romney Praised Individual Mandate in 2010

Romney Praised Individual Mandate in 2010

Andrew Kaczynski points out at Buzzfeed that in a 2010 interview, Mitt Romney compared his Massachusetts universal health insurance plan to that of President Obama, […]

Juan Cole

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Ghoul’s Glossary

Ghoul’s Glossary

Offshore account: Something that a gentleman creates, puts in his wife’s name, and carefully hides when he goes into politics because good breeding forbids him […]

Juan Cole

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Against War (George Washington Poster)

Against War (George Washington Poster)

Juan Cole

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