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Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Juan Cole

Statistically, she was no more safe in the US than she was in Pakistan

Climate Change
Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Juan Cole

Rep. Brooks believes that silt from the Nile River in Egypt is part of the problem. He doesn’t know that the Nile was dammed up in 1958

Donald Trump
When Trump calls Latinos "Animals," should we hear echoes of the SS's Undermen?

When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?

Juan Cole

It’s an ugly epithet with a dark history

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Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Juan Cole

Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises

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Can Palestinians be Killed?  Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Juan Cole

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

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The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews  from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

Juan Cole

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

Donald Trump
Kelly's "Family Separation"  recalls Slave Era practice of Selling Parents down the River

Kelly’s “Family Separation” recalls Slave Era practice of Selling Parents down the River

Juan Cole

Kelly bizarrely defended Confederate slave drivers as having lived at a time before the evils of slavery were apparent to moral people

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Muslim Clerics condemn Suicide Bombing, Targeting Civilians as Violations of Islamic Law

Muslim Clerics condemn Suicide Bombing, Targeting Civilians as Violations of Islamic Law

Juan Cole

Indonesia hosted a conference of 70 prominent Muslim clergymen from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia to combat extremism

Iran
Why there isn't likely to be a conventional War between Israel and Iran

Why there isn’t likely to be a conventional War between Israel and Iran

Juan Cole

Despite the saber rattling, a large-scale ground war appears unlikely

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