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

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
Donald Trump

Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

01/18/2026 By Yale Climate Connections

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

01/18/2026 By Paul Rogers

More Stories

Uncategorized
100 Million Mishandled In Iraq

100 Million Mishandled In Iraq

$100 Million “Mishandled” in Iraq An international audit has found that the Allawi government “mishandled” $100 million in petroleum funds that should have been used […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
8000 Antiquities Still Missing From

8000 Antiquities Still Missing From

8,000 Antiquities Still Missing from Iraq The Independent summarizes a paper given by John Curtis of the British Museum at an art crime conference in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
14 Killed Sadr Tries To Mediate

14 Killed Sadr Tries To Mediate

14 Killed Sadr Tries to Mediate between Sunnis, Shiites At least 14 persons were killed in Iraq on Sunday in separate incidents. There was a […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Is It Georges Fault Laura Bush Heckled

Is It Georges Fault Laura Bush Heckled

Is it George’s Fault? Laura Bush Heckled at Wailing Wall over Pollard Affair And at Temple Mount by Palestinians I was alarmed at the tenor […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Muqtada Tries To Mediate Between

Muqtada Tries To Mediate Between

Muqtada Tries to Mediate Between Sunnis and Badr Three Sunni Arab organizations arranged a meeting of 1,000 Sunni notables on Saturday, in an attempt to […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Us Public Confidence On Iraq

Us Public Confidence On Iraq

US Public Confidence on Iraq Plummeting A new Harris Interactive poll shows that US public confidence in the Iraq venture is falling rapidly. Question: How […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Saturday Satire Not To Be Outdone

Saturday Satire Not To Be Outdone

Saturday Satire Not to be outdone.

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Sadrists Clash With Police In

Sadrists Clash With Police In

Sadrists Clash with Police in Nasiriyah Baghdad Sunni Mosque Protest Ramadi Demonstrations against Koran Desecration Thousands of protesters rallied in Iraq (some reports say 6,000) […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Why Jacoby Is Wrong Jeff Jacoby Argues

Why Jacoby Is Wrong Jeff Jacoby Argues

Why Jacoby is Wrong Jeff Jacoby argues that there is something peculiar about the reaction of Muslims to the allegations that the Koran was disrespected […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2782
  • Page 2783
  • Page 2784
  • Page 2785
  • Page 2786
  • …
  • Page 3070
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump

The Conversation

Climate Crisis

Racing toward a Mad Max World

Stan Cox

Bill of Rights

California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

censorship

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Human Rights Watch

Popular

  • When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
  • Trump's Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America's New Protection Racket
  • Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
  • Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
  • Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved