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

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

More Stories

Human Rights
Saudis sentence Leeds doctoral student Salma Al-Shehab to 34 Years in Prison for Human Rights Tweets

Saudis sentence Leeds doctoral student Salma Al-Shehab to 34 Years in Prison for Human Rights Tweets

Middle East Studies Association | – Committee on Academic Freedom 7 September 2022 His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud King of Saudi Arabia […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Antarctica
What's worse than a Slow-Moving Doomsday Glacier like Thwaites?  A Raptor Glacier Sprinting for the Ocean!

What’s worse than a Slow-Moving Doomsday Glacier like Thwaites? A Raptor Glacier Sprinting for the Ocean!

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As regular readers know, I’m fascinated by glaciers. Growing up in France, I had the opportunity at one point to […]

Juan Cole

China
New Hawkish UK PM Liz Truss is Spoiling for Confrontations with Russia and China

New Hawkish UK PM Liz Truss is Spoiling for Confrontations with Russia and China

London (Special to Informed Comment) – The United Kingdom has announced its third Prime Minister since Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU) in […]

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Saudi Arabia
Djinns and Glass Palaces: Is New Saudi Desert City Utopia or Horror Story?

Djinns and Glass Palaces: Is New Saudi Desert City Utopia or Horror Story?

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Saudi Arabia’s The Line has been lauded as the world’s most futuristic city plan, and […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New: A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes

The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New: A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes

By Steve Fraser | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has […]

Tomdispatch

Featured
Despite Israeli Whitewash, Its Killing of US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a War Crime

Despite Israeli Whitewash, Its Killing of US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a War Crime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military issued a brazen whitewash of its killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and its shooting of […]

Juan Cole

Agriculture
As Colorado River Dries Up, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis

As Colorado River Dries Up, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – The western United States is, famously, in the grips of its worst megadrought in a millennium. The […]

ProPublica

African-Americans
Community Groups and Activists pivot to Mutual Aid amid ongoing Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

Community Groups and Activists pivot to Mutual Aid amid ongoing Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

By Sara Herschander | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – After major flooding last week and years of infrastructural neglect, 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi […]

Waging Nonviolence

Environmentalism
The most cost-effective energy efficiency Investments you can make – and how the new Inflation Reduction Act could help

The most cost-effective energy efficiency Investments you can make – and how the new Inflation Reduction Act could help

By Jasmina Burek, UMass Lowell | – Energy efficiency can save homeowners and renters hundreds of dollars a year, and the new Inflation Reduction Act […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 400
  • Page 401
  • Page 402
  • Page 403
  • Page 404
  • …
  • Page 3016
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Climate Crisis

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

Waging Nonviolence

Environment

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

The Conversation

Donald Trump

Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Psychopathocracy 3.0
  • Under the Sea: China's Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
  • California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
  • The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West's Complicity
  • New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved