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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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Under DeSantis, Republican "Child Identity" McCarthyism comes for Mickey Mouse

Under DeSantis, Republican “Child Identity” McCarthyism comes for Mickey Mouse

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attack on the Disney Corporation may seem odd, coming from a pro-business governor in a state where […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate change triggering global Collapse in Insect Numbers: stressed Farmland shows 63% Decline

Climate change triggering global Collapse in Insect Numbers: stressed Farmland shows 63% Decline

By Tim Newbold, UCL; and Charlie Outhwaite, UCL | – Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species […]

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Algeria
Why the French Election is Haunted by the Ghost of Colonialism in Algeria: Roots of Far-Right Le Pen

Why the French Election is Haunted by the Ghost of Colonialism in Algeria: Roots of Far-Right Le Pen

By Mustafa Fetouri | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Whether France is voting, commemorating D-day or debating French identity in terms of Republic […]

Middle East Monitor

Epidemics
The Poor at the Crossroads: The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort

The Poor at the Crossroads: The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The 54th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., just passed. Dr. King was shot down while organizing […]

Liz Theoharis

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Putin sees Israel's Occupation of Palestinians as its and the West's Achilles Heel on Ukraine Crisis

Putin sees Israel’s Occupation of Palestinians as its and the West’s Achilles Heel on Ukraine Crisis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s attempt to stay more or less neutral on Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is faltering, as the government of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
From Ukraine to Palestine: The Boycotting Double Standard

From Ukraine to Palestine: The Boycotting Double Standard

By Abderrahmane Amor | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It was Putin’s recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent breakaway regions in Eastern Ukraine […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth?

Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth?

Scott Denning | – Sometimes it may seem that humans have altered the Earth beyond repair. But our planet is an incredible system in which […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Can we Afford a Fair Global Climate Transition?

Can we Afford a Fair Global Climate Transition?

By Tom Athanasiou | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – How to create the political backing for the international effort necessary to achieve […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Batteries
California Briefly Runs on 97% Renewable Energy, Showing a Future in which Oil and Gas Dictators like Putin are defunded

California Briefly Runs on 97% Renewable Energy, Showing a Future in which Oil and Gas Dictators like Putin are defunded

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – California’s energy mix was powered 97% by renewable energy on Sunday, April 3 at 3:39 p.m., the highest contribution of […]

Juan Cole

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