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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden came out swinging in Philadelphia in a rare Thursday evening prime time address, denouncing the “MAGA Republican […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Philadelphia is “awash in guns”: More people were shot there in 2022, hundreds fatally, than in larger cities […]

H. Patricia Hynes

censorship
China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

Human Rights Watch – (Geneva) – A groundbreaking United Nations report published on August 31, 2022, says the Chinese government has committed abuses that may […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Should Palestine be accepted as a Member State at the UN? Conundrums of the 2-State Compromise

Should Palestine be accepted as a Member State at the UN? Conundrums of the 2-State Compromise

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Palestinian Authority is once again seeking full membership of the UN, and the US has already expressed its […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
CO2 highest in a Million Years, Seas Rising, and a new “Ocean” arises in Flood-Hit Pakistan

CO2 highest in a Million Years, Seas Rising, and a new “Ocean” arises in Flood-Hit Pakistan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN reports that satellite photos show that the overflowing Indus has created a new body of water in southern Pakistan […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Israel is worried about a possible Clash with Washington over the Iran Nuclear Deal

Israel is worried about a possible Clash with Washington over the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the countdown begins for the signing of a nuclear agreement between Iran […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev: The contradictory Legacy of Soviet Leader who attempted ‘Revolution from Above

Mikhail Gorbachev: The contradictory Legacy of Soviet Leader who attempted ‘Revolution from Above

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely […]

Ronald Suny

Iran
Iran has Reached out to the US many Times, and often been Rebuffed by Washington

Iran has Reached out to the US many Times, and often been Rebuffed by Washington

( Detailed Political Quizzes) – In an August 14, 2022, New York Times Opinion piece (“How the United States Misunderstands Iran”), Karim Sadjadpour, a senior […]

Jeffrey Rudolph

Afghanistan
That Time Gorbachev Announced Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan and US went on Building up Muslim Fundamentalists there Anyway, leading to 9/11

That Time Gorbachev Announced Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan and US went on Building up Muslim Fundamentalists there Anyway, leading to 9/11

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing yesterday at age 91 is a good occasion to review some of the profound mistakes of the […]

Juan Cole

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