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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

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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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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

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Israel's Netanyahu at UN Wipes Palestinians off the Map, Menaces Iran with "Credible Nuclear Threat"

Israel’s Netanyahu at UN Wipes Palestinians off the Map, Menaces Iran with “Credible Nuclear Threat”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to love waving around cartoonish props at the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. […]

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Saudi Crown Prince Confirms Death Sentence for Tweets, Blames “Bad Laws”

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Joey Shea Researcher, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates   @joey_shea Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has confirmed that retired teacher Muhammed […]

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Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

Clarence Thomas Secretly Helped Raise Money for Koch Network, Which has Cases before the Court

By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon […]

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The Era of Rupert Murdoch, a Blight on our Heating Planet and a Fomenter of War and Racial Hatreds, is Passing

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australian-American press lord Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced Thursday that he would step down as the CEO of both News Corp […]

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Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

Climate Change: Was the freak ‘Medicane’ Storm that devastated Libya a Glimpse of North Africa’s Future?

By Mike Rogerson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Belkasem Alkaryani, University of Tobruk and Mahjoor Lone, Northumbria University, Newcastle | – Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan […]

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Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestinian authorities are increasingly concerned about what they see as an increase in emigration by young Palestinians from the Gaza […]

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Are Green Sustainability and 20th Century-Style ‘Economic Growth’ Compatible?  Scientists increasingly Fear Not

Are Green Sustainability and 20th Century-Style ‘Economic Growth’ Compatible? Scientists increasingly Fear Not

Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School and Lewis King, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | – (The Conversation) – When she took to the floor to give […]

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