Juan Cole

Contributing writer at The Nation, Juan Cole, argues against legitimizing the Islamic State as a "state" and urges us to stray from war rhetoric involving them.  

Juan Cole, author of "The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East," says the world needs to give the revolutionaries more time, and that the young protest...

Juan Cole, University of Michigan history professor, blogger, TruthDig.com columnist, and the author of The New Arabs: How the Wired and Global Youth of the Middle East Is Transforming It (Simon & Schuster, 2014) talks about the role of youth in the Arab Spring. 

Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan, blogs at Informed Comment and is the author of Engaging the Muslim World. He comments on President Obama's first state visit to a Muslim country.

Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of the blog Informed Comment, and Michael Hirsh, senior editor and author of a weekly column on Newsweek.com, talk about what victory means in Iraq and the significance ...

Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and blogger for Informed Comment, and Doug Elfman, television critic for The Chicago Sun-Times, discuss whether the TV show Heroes is the liberal answer to 24.