San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]
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Israel, Palestinian Children, and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (HRW)
( Human Rights Watch ) – We write in advance of the 94th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its […]
Suspected of Sedition, Trump Joins Rogues’ Gallery of Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ali Vitali, Kate Santaliz and Haley Talbot at NBC News report that the January 6 Committee of the House of […]
Iran: Till Death Do us Part
Revised 12/21/22. Within a. period of 4 months this year, I lost both my mother and oldest brother. The sense of loss has been enormous. […]
2022 Revealed how Major Arctic Climate Shifts endanger People, Ecosystems and Wildlife
By Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder | – In the […]
Forget the Deplorables and Focus on the Persuadables: The Code behind the Far Right’s Success
( Tomdispatch.com) – Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates. Exhibit A: Kari Lake, the Republican who ran for governor […]
Iranian State Arrests Popular Actress Taraneh Alidoosti, star of Academy-Award-Winning Film, for Protesting Executions
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian authorities arrested renowned actress Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, on Saturday for an Instagram post in which she denounced the execution […]
G7 Industrialized Democracies Establish Climate Club with Focus on Industry Decarbonization
By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The G7 group of influential economies have set up an international climate club to […]
A Year of Global Displacement
By Farrah Hassen | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – This year had the unwelcome distinction of being the first to see over […]
Where the Climate Target of 1.5°C (2.7°F) Came from, and Why we must not Lose Sight of its Importance
By Piers Forster, University of Leeds | – The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change […]
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