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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:  Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain
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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

Richard Penaskovic

Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2025), $30.00. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, […]

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:17

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

10/04/2025 By Juan Cole

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

10/04/2025 By The Conversation

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

By P. Pratap Kumar | – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90. Archbishop Tutu earned the respect and love […]

The Conversation

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Desmond Tutu, the Nonviolent Foe of Two Apartheids - South Africa and Israel-Palestine

Desmond Tutu, the Nonviolent Foe of Two Apartheids – South Africa and Israel-Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ofeiba Quist-Arcton reports at NPR that Desmond Tutu has died in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 90. Tutu was […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral

America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral

(Counterpunch) – American foreign policy today is in a reactionary death spiral. Never has a new “national security” policy paradigm been more desperately needed, yet […]

Walter L. Hixson

Israel/ Palestine
Finding What is in Common: The “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students

Finding What is in Common: The “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students

( Traveling Twins) – At Hebrew University, I am participating in a “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students. Organized by the campus […]

Abigail Leibowitz

Climate Crisis
Good News in 2022:  Top 5 Reasons to be Happy about Electric Vehicles in US in Coming Year

Good News in 2022: Top 5 Reasons to be Happy about Electric Vehicles in US in Coming Year

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s Infrastructure and Jobs Act, passed in October, and the new fuel standards set by the EPA will […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Party
Three Reasons to be Hopeful Democrats will Still Pass Key Parts of Build Back Better

Three Reasons to be Hopeful Democrats will Still Pass Key Parts of Build Back Better

By Karen Dolan | – ( Otherwords.org ) – There’s no getting around it: 2021 has been a tough year. As with 2020, many of […]

OtherWords

Authoritarianism
The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Mauricio Drelichman | – From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya […]

The Conversation

Christianity
No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect

No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why is America imposing hardships on the Christians of the Middle East? Xinhua’s reporter visited Syria and found that the […]

Juan Cole

Left Politics
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s […]

Peter Certo

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