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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to Medicare Advantage,“beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, just like “beware of Greeks […]

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

08/19/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

08/19/2025 By The Conversation

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A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People:  And our Frayed Social Safety Net

A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People: And our Frayed Social Safety Net

Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – The American military is now having trouble recruiting enough soldiers. According to the New York Times, its ranks […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Europe Parched, Farms Fallow, as Lakes and Rivers Dry up in worst Drought since time of Christ

Climate Emergency: Europe Parched, Farms Fallow, as Lakes and Rivers Dry up in worst Drought since time of Christ

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Europe is in the throes of a once-in-500 years severe drought that is making its rivers into shallow streams and […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan Women are refusing to remain Silent One Year after the Taliban Takeover

Afghan Women are refusing to remain Silent One Year after the Taliban Takeover

By Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University and Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott College | – (The Conversation) – On Aug. 15, it will be a year since […]

The Conversation

Death Penalty
Why Is Iran Executing So Many Prisoners?

Why Is Iran Executing So Many Prisoners?

By Giovana Faria | – ( RFE/RL ) – With a long list of crimes punishable by death, Iran put at least 314 prisoners to […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic U.S. Landscapes, from Joshua Trees to Wetlands

Climate Change Threatens the Most Iconic U.S. Landscapes, from Joshua Trees to Wetlands

By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords ) – Over the past decade, I’ve traveled countless times to the desert regions east of San Bernardino […]

OtherWords

Books
In Honor of Salman Rushdie, Novelist and Stabbing Victim: Midnight's Other Children, by Juan Cole

In Honor of Salman Rushdie, Novelist and Stabbing Victim: Midnight’s Other Children, by Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize-winning novelist, was repeatedly stabbed on Friday at a literary event at Chautauqua Institution in western New […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?

From the Greatest Generation to the Trump Generation: Can America’s Drastic Decline be Reversed?

( Tomdispatch.com) – I find nothing strange in Joe Biden, at 79 (going on 80), being the oldest president in our history and possibly planning […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Why Climate Activists Need to Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, a major Turning Point despite its Warts

Why Climate Activists Need to Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, a major Turning Point despite its Warts

By Daniel Hunter | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Congress just passed a major $375 billion climate bill, and it will be signed by the […]

Waging Nonviolence

Antarctica
The World’s biggest Ice Sheet is more vulnerable to Global Warming than Scientists previously Thought

The World’s biggest Ice Sheet is more vulnerable to Global Warming than Scientists previously Thought

By Chris Stokes, Durham University and Guy Paxman, Durham University | – The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so […]

The Conversation

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