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

The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict
Donald Trump

The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict

Volkan Isbasaran

On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the NATO summit at the Hague. His office […]

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

06/25/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

06/25/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

More Stories

Climate Crisis
Just Stop Oil: Research shows how Activists and Politicians talk differently about Climate Change<

Just Stop Oil: Research shows how Activists and Politicians talk differently about Climate Change<

By Clare Cunningham, York St John University | – The environmental activist group Just Stop Oil has grasped public attention with a series of “art […]

The Conversation

Featured
Israel:  Ultra-Far-Right Ben-Gvir Given Nat'l Security Ministry - As though KKK took over Homeland Security in US

Israel: Ultra-Far-Right Ben-Gvir Given Nat’l Security Ministry – As though KKK took over Homeland Security in US

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Likud Party of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu signed a deal on Friday […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
‘A Nightmare’: Iran Intensifies Deadly Crackdown In Kurdistan Region As Protests Rage

‘A Nightmare’: Iran Intensifies Deadly Crackdown In Kurdistan Region As Protests Rage

( RFE/RL ) – Iranian authorities have intensified their deadly crackdown in the country’s western Kurdistan region, which has been the epicenter of the anti-establishment […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Arab World
No more “Marry your Rapist”:  Repeal Laws Discriminating against Women in the Middle East – ‘Equality Now’

No more “Marry your Rapist”: Repeal Laws Discriminating against Women in the Middle East – ‘Equality Now’

By Amelia Smith | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The women’s rights NGO, Equality Now, has released a policy brief to mark International […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
COP27: how the Fossil Fuel Lobby Crowded out Calls for Climate Justice

COP27: how the Fossil Fuel Lobby Crowded out Calls for Climate Justice

By Alix Dietzel, University of Bristol | – COP27 has just wrapped up. Despite much excitement over a new fund to address “loss and damage” […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Did the Ukraine War kill 'Natural Gas?'  Solar Power is 10 times Cheaper over the long Term

Did the Ukraine War kill ‘Natural Gas?’ Solar Power is 10 times Cheaper over the long Term

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The independent energy research firm Rystad Energy, headquartered in Oslo, has found that it would be ten times less expensive […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Ukraine War, Energy Crisis, pushes Germans’ Acceptance of Wind Turbines to Record Level

Ukraine War, Energy Crisis, pushes Germans’ Acceptance of Wind Turbines to Record Level

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany […]

Clean Energy Wire

Israel/ Palestine
Will Netanyahu's new Religious Right Gov't Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

Will Netanyahu’s new Religious Right Gov’t Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

By Fergus Green, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute | – (The Conversation) – The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 346
  • Page 347
  • Page 348
  • Page 349
  • Page 350
  • …
  • Page 2997
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine

For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid

Middle East Monitor

China

The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

The Conversation

Popular

  • Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
  • Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
  • The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
  • Trump's contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation
  • Trump's Tweet isn't Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved