Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Iraq
Iraq bombs meeting of Daesh leaders in Syria; kills high-value targets

Iraq bombs meeting of Daesh leaders in Syria; kills high-value targets

Iraq has launched an air attack on a gathering of Daesh leaders inside neighbouring Syria, killing 45 members of the hardline militant group

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Is Fertile Crescent Drying up?  Neighbors’ Dams, Global Heating, and Iraq’s Low Tigris

Is Fertile Crescent Drying up? Neighbors’ Dams, Global Heating, and Iraq’s Low Tigris

Multi-Billion Dollar Budget Needed To Keep Iraq’s Water Flowing

Niqash

Native Americans
Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families

Mark Trahant

Featured
Warning to US:  Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-Democratize Turkey

Warning to US: Erdogan has used same techniques as Trump to de-Democratize Turkey

Erdogan’s rise as an authoritarian strong man is a key lesson to America about how Trump could move the US in a similar direction

Juan Cole

Featured
Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted […]

Juan Cole

Immigration
“We Want the Children Free!”  “I Really Care!”: Cries from Inside Migrant Detention Camp

“We Want the Children Free!” “I Really Care!”: Cries from Inside Migrant Detention Camp

A group of people held at the center had been separated from their children as part of President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy

Javier Tovar

Iraq
In Post-ISIL Iraq, Cleric al-Sadr adds PM Haidar al-Abadi in Quest for Gov’t of National Unity

In Post-ISIL Iraq, Cleric al-Sadr adds PM Haidar al-Abadi in Quest for Gov’t of National Unity

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr said they had formed an alliance in a bid to create a new government

AFP

Saudi Arabia
At Midnight, Riyadh Erupts in Cheers for Women Drivers–but Women Activists still in Jail

At Midnight, Riyadh Erupts in Cheers for Women Drivers–but Women Activists still in Jail

For many, the end of Saudi Arabia’s driving ban for women is a welcome step, but far from enough

Natacha Yazbeck

Featured
The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

The US would require a social revolution to even resemble France or Germany

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1116
  • Page 1117
  • Page 1118
  • Page 1119
  • Page 1120
  • …
  • Page 3024
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells, Despite Trump Denials

ProPublica

Climate Crisis

Speeding Up Climate Action: Triggering Positive Tipping Points

The Conversation

Featured

Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
  • Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics
  • A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
  • Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions
  • Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved