Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last week, Costa Rica’s president, Carlos Alvarado, announced one of the more ambitious plans for a transition of a country to Net Carbon Zero proposed anywhere in the world. While many countries have made strides toward reducing their carbon dioxide production from electricity generation, Costa Rica is now addressing transportation, […]
Month
Category
- Africa (146)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (827)
- Australasia (1)
- Australia (5)
- Authoritarianism (170)
- Canada (1)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (417)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (236)
- Dissent (284)
- Economy (708)
- Education (75)
- Elderly (3)
- Energy (1,062)
- Environment (1,469)
- Europe (774)
- Featured (2,624)
- fiction (5)
- Food (8)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Health (433)
- History (238)
- Human Rights (983)
- Immigration (17)
- International (597)
- Islamophobia (303)
- Juan Cole (268)
- Latin America (65)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (367)
- Middle East (7,193)
- Arab World (4,598)
- Iran (890)
- Israel (698)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,924)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (262)
- Turkey (441)
- military (104)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (101)
- NATO (6)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (56)
- Patriarchy (2)
- Peace (73)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (23)
- Poverty (11)
- privacy (19)
- racism (342)
- Rape (5)
- religion (827)
- Rights (127)
- robots (1)
- Romance (1)
- science (112)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (24)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (21)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (259)
- Terrorism (1,033)
- Tolerance (4)
- Uncategorized (8,043)
- United Nations (80)
- Urbanization (3)
- US Foreign Policy (567)
- US politics (3,855)
- Anti-War Movement (6)
- Campaign Finance (27)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (59)
- Civil Rights (82)
- Congress (34)
- Constitution (309)
- crime (5)
- Democratic Party (536)
- Democratic Socialists of America (13)
- Domestic Terrorism (16)
- Drone Warfare (26)
- Espionage (115)
- Ethnicities (278)
- Far Right (186)
- FBI (41)
- Foreign Policy (203)
- Gay Rights (14)
- Guns (64)
- Immigration (190)
- Israel Lobbies (82)
- Marijuana (1)
- Militarization (229)
- National Security State (383)
- Native Americans (22)
- Nuclear arsenal (6)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (357)
- Police (34)
- prison reform (6)
- Private Prisons (1)
- Puerto Rico (25)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (2,399)
- Supreme Court (59)
- Voter suppression (19)
- Whistleblowers (4)
- Xenophobia (8)
- Veterans (28)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (271)
- Western Religion (373)
- White Supremacists (78)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (288)
- workers (144)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (121)
© 2020 All Rights Reserved