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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names

Mitchell Zimmerman

The renaming of the Performing Arts Center followed a renaming that created the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace

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West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

12/26/2025 By Juan Cole

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq's old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

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

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

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Energy Information Agency reports that California’s fossil gas use is steadily declining. In the first half of 2025, […]

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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

( Middle East Monitor ) – In 1916, the Middle East was partitioned by its rulers with ink between Britain and France. A hundred years […]

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Antarctica
“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

Chris Stokes, Durham University; Florence Colleoni, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), and James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey “We cannot negotiate with the […]

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In 2025, 65% of Americans view Muslims Favorably,  85% view Jews Favorably

In 2025, 65% of Americans view Muslims Favorably, 85% view Jews Favorably

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development and director of the Critical Issues Poll at the University […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis

By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, photography by Brian Otieno for ProPublica. | – ( ProPublica) – On July 18, a mild, overcast night […]

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Academic Freedom
Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur  on Palestine, Despite Sanctions

Trump Administration Concedes U.S. Researchers may Talk with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Despite Sanctions

Middle East Studies Association of North America | – ( MESA Press Release ) – WASHINGTON—In response to a letter sent by the Knight First […]

Middle East Studies Association

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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Pakistan’s solar power switch continues to grow by leaps and bounds. In 2023, solar was the fifth largest source of […]

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the University of Arkansas regarding the removal of Professor […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Constitution
Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it’s not an easy thing to […]

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