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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries
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California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Two-thirds of California’s electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.

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From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

From Sykes-Picot to Silicon Valley: Why Middle East Fault Lines now run through American Tech

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“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

12/19/2025 By The Conversation

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

About 45% of Sudanese, 21.2 million of them, are facing the highest levels of acute food insecurity

Rebecca Gordon

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Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Misi occurs when the seafloor beneath the ice sheet slopes downwards toward the interior of the ice sheet.

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Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power

Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power

I believe that the earliest source we have for the life of the Prophet is the Quran itself. And I believe the Quran is early.

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
“Into this Universe:”  Heidegger and FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:29

“Into this Universe:” Heidegger and FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:29

He brought me first into being, to my alarm./ This life increased nothing but my bewilderment

Juan Cole

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“Identity is never fixed:” Interview with Iranian-American Artist Soraya Sharghi

“Identity is never fixed:” Interview with Iranian-American Artist Soraya Sharghi

Sharghi unveiled a luminous universe where mythology, memory, and material intertwine

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Culture
Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) has sometimes been called “the Shakespeare of the East.” The comparison is just

Juan Cole

Iran
One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

Iran grapples with the collapse of its key regional ally. Tehran lost up to 50 billion dollars invested over a decade,

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The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The cleavage threatens the post-conflict architecture, compromise the humanitarian response, and cast a shadow over Western coherence

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