Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]
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The Real Victims of Trump-Putin Illiberalism: Women
By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – When I first read about the Russian government decriminalizing domestic violence recently, my first thought was: […]
Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’
By Ali Kazimi | (The Conversation) | – – Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over […]
Resistance is Fertile
Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair […]
Influence: Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter,” detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers a stolen letter in the […]
Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new Pew poll finds that 58% of Republicans now say that colleges and universities have […]
New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza
By IMEMC News | – – Most of the projections for 2020, on the situation in the Gaza Strip, have deteriorated further and faster than […]
Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It
By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the […]
Rolex “Caliph” of ISIL Dead: Syrian Observatory
TeleSur | – – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death has been widely speculated for months. Reports from the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, SOHR, […]
Top 5 Muslim-related Hypocrisies in the Donald Trump Jr. Russia Meeting
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The dishonesty and bad faith of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and general pose of hating Muslims […]
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