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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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If the FBI Really Arrested 90 Suspects in Domestic Terror Probe, Why won't they Share Records of Even One?

If the FBI Really Arrested 90 Suspects in Domestic Terror Probe, Why won’t they Share Records of Even One?

By Fritz Zimmermann | ProPublica | – On July 23, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that federal investigations of domestic terrorism […]

ProPublica

Donald Trump
Trump-Saudi War on Yemen Collapsing as Southern Separatists Take Aden

Trump-Saudi War on Yemen Collapsing as Southern Separatists Take Aden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yemen, a country of 28 million and one of the poorest in the world, had already become a byword for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture: Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases

To Avoid Boiling the Earth, we Need a New Agriculture: Farming emits 1/3 of Greenhouse Gases

By Mark Howden | – We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He's setting Stage for Global Conflict

Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He’s setting Stage for Global Conflict

Even if Trump manages to end the war in Afghanistan, he’s fueling other wars that will be even more devastating.

John Feffer

China
Could Trump's Paranoia on China Bankrupt Us?  His Staged Trade War is Failing

Could Trump’s Paranoia on China Bankrupt Us? His Staged Trade War is Failing

China is coming after us! Time to steel ourselves for battle against the human-rights-violating, currency-manipulating, job-grabbing, intellectual-property-stealing, missile-launching evil doers. Or so Washington, D.C. would […]

Reese Erlich

Donald Trump
Valhalla Awaits! After White Terrorism at Oslo Mosque, what if Trump spoke about Supremacists the Way he does Islam?

Valhalla Awaits! After White Terrorism at Oslo Mosque, what if Trump spoke about Supremacists the Way he does Islam?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A young Norwegian man wearing body armor and carrying two shotguns and a handgun attacked the Al-Noor Mosque in a […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Humanity hasn't experienced a Month as Hot as July in all the Time since Millard Fillmore was President

Humanity hasn’t experienced a Month as Hot as July in all the Time since Millard Fillmore was President

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – July was the hottest month ever recorded, i.e. the hottest since about 1850 when scientific records began being kept around […]

Juan Cole

India
India’s colossal blunder in Kashmir

India’s colossal blunder in Kashmir

By Ayesha Ray | – In a stunningly dangerous, undemocratic and secretive move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government repealed Articles 370 and […]

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia
Are changes to Saudi Arabia’s Guardianship Laws really about Women?

Are changes to Saudi Arabia’s Guardianship Laws really about Women?

By Zarqa Parvez | – Saudi women are amongst the strongest, most intelligent and inspirational women in the Middle East. Female Saudi academics and activists […]

Middle East Monitor

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