Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Of Course there were Africans in Middle Earth, Just as there Were in Medieval England
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American white nationalism has attempted to appropriate certain cultures, times and places as quintessentially “white,” and so it is no […]
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