Informed Comment

The Inevitable Transition in Iran

Economic grievances are now directly tied to the functioning and political structure of the Islamic Republic itself

A US strike would almost certainly hand Iran’s security apparatus the very narrative it seeks: an existential battle for national survival

Environmental disasters and their destructiveness are only ratcheting up in step with increases in global greenhouse-gas emissions

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Reports of Large-Scale Killings in Iran under cover of internet blackout

Iranian diaspora communities and non-Iranians alike have used social media to share concerns about the internet blackout

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Critical historians like William Appleman Williams played a key role in highlighting the US’s imperial record in Latin America

Not surprisingly, perhaps, the United States has over the years resisted any attempt to outlaw autonomous weapons