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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect
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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Juan Cole

Puerto Ricans are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for

Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing  against Palestinians Escalate

Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate

02/10/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

02/10/2026 By Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass

Reverse the story, though, and it immediately becomes a malign, if unimaginable, fairy tale.  Of course, no Iranian elite forces will ever operate along the U.S. border…

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
Can Obama Prevail against a Romney-Netanyahu Ticket? – Robertson

Can Obama Prevail against a Romney-Netanyahu Ticket? – Robertson

John Robertson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment CAN OBAMA PREVAIL AGAINST A ROMNEY-NETANYAHU TICKET? Paul Pillar and Leslie Gelb – both of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled

Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled write in a guest column for Informed Comment The Way Forward in the Middle East Reversing a bi-partisan US […]

Juan Cole

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Béji:  “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Béji: “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Hélé Béji, a prominent woman writer from an old notable family in Tunis, was outraged by an incident in early January when a small crowd […]

Juan Cole

Israel/Palestine
GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Perhaps 100,000 Egyptians came out on Wednesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the […]

Juan Cole

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SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address treated the Middle East at several points, underlining the unusual importance of this region to the United […]

Juan Cole

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Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

World military spending in 2010. Note that Iran’s is not a big enough proportion of world arms spending to show up on this graph, which […]

Juan Cole

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Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Graffiti from Mission Street, San Francisco in honor of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation kicked off the Tunisian Revolution, inspired the Tahrir Square demonstrations, and the […]

Juan Cole

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