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Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Culture

Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Juan Cole

Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) has sometimes been called “the Shakespeare of the East.” The comparison is just

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One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

12/13/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

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Women are turning the tide on Climate Policy Worldwide, including Australia

Women are turning the tide on Climate Policy Worldwide, including Australia

By Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne; Annabelle Workman, The University of Melbourne; Kathryn Bowen, The University of Melbourne; and Rebekkah Markey-Towler, The University of […]

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Apartheid
Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maram Humaid at Al Jazeera English reports that Israeli fighter jets bombed the civilian Palestine Towers apartment building in downtown […]

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Japan
The Unbearable Weight of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Where We Stand on August 6 and 9, 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Where We Stand on August 6 and 9, 2022

August 6 and 9 mark the 77th year since the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, annihilating instantly […]

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Elections
Anti-Abortion Extremism Is Scaring Voters. It Should

Anti-Abortion Extremism Is Scaring Voters. It Should

By Mitchell Zimmerman | – ( Otherwords.org) – Our country may be divided on the issue of abortion. But when it comes down to it, […]

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Carbon Footprint
Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

Business can no Longer Ignore Extreme Heat, Climate Emergency as they Threaten Bottom Line

By David Lont, University of Otago; Martien Lubberink, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; and Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis | – […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Sinema goes for Inflation Reduction Act as Princeton’s ZERO Labs deems it will boost Solar Energy 5-Fold

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is reported to have signed on to the Schumer-Manchin energy bill, accurately termed the Inflation Reduction […]

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Climate Crisis
Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA

By Morgan Fischer | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the EPA could not force […]

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Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

Germany gets 20% of its Electricity from the Sun: July marks third monthly Solar Power output Record

By Edgar Meza | – Referencing: Germany’s “PV Magazine”. Photovoltaic systems in Germany generated a new record level of electricity in the month July 2022, […]

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Corporations
The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed

By Alice Mah, University of Warwick | – This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the […]

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