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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

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Housing Unaffordable for Half of US Renters

Housing Unaffordable for Half of US Renters

By Matt McConnell | Researcher, Economic Justice and Rights Division | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – New survey data released recently by the […]

Human Rights Watch

Islam
Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad are an important Piece of History – here’s why Art Historians teach them

Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad are an important Piece of History – here’s why Art Historians teach them

By Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan | – Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing […]

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Israelis mass to Protest "Thuggish" "Fascist" new Government, as it Proceeds to Ensconce Apartheid toward Palestinians

Israelis mass to Protest “Thuggish” “Fascist” new Government, as it Proceeds to Ensconce Apartheid toward Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new, far right wing government in Israel, some elements of which are fairly characterized as fascist, has in a […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Will Iran’s Protest Movement Survive?

Will Iran’s Protest Movement Survive?

( RFE/RL) – Antiestablishment protests have raged across Iran for months, despite a brutal state crackdown in which hundreds of demonstrators have been killed and […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

US Foreign Policy
Why American Exceptionalism can be a Very Bad Thing

Why American Exceptionalism can be a Very Bad Thing

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper stories about the war in Ukraine. […]

Rebecca Gordon

Christianity
Christian Nationalism is downplayed in the Jan. 6 report and Collective Memory

Christian Nationalism is downplayed in the Jan. 6 report and Collective Memory

By Joyce Dalsheim, University of North Carolina – Charlotte; and Gregory Starret, University of North Carolina – Charlotte | – (The Conversation) – When they […]

The Conversation

Brazil
Brazil's Jan. 6:  Right wing Mob invades Nat'l Congress, Tries to Stop Progressive Policies like Saving Amazon

Brazil’s Jan. 6: Right wing Mob invades Nat’l Congress, Tries to Stop Progressive Policies like Saving Amazon

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, denounced the invasion of the national Congress and some ministry buildings […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel Being Turned into a Jewish Theocracy?

Is Israel Being Turned into a Jewish Theocracy?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) = Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest serving prime minister of Israel, built his entire career […]

Middle East Monitor

Displaced and Refugees
Who will Help Rohingya Women and Demonstrate Global Leadership?

Who will Help Rohingya Women and Demonstrate Global Leadership?

By Deeplina Banerjee, Western University | – The UN Security Council recently adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in more than seven decades. The resolution […]

The Conversation

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