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

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

More Stories

Climate Crisis
Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

By Siddharth Joshi, James Glynn and Shivika Mittal | – Rooftop solar panels are up to 79% cheaper than they were in 2010. These plummeting […]

The Conversation

Featured
Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden says he wants to end the Yemen war, but eight months in, he has not made a dent […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

By Coco Cresswell | – ( Globalvoices.org) – In 1996 Hadas Lahav, a Jewish Israeli social activist, had a vision: a future of Arab-Israeli coexistence. […]

Global Voices

Government surveillance
I’ll be Watching You:  Military Dependents under Surveillance

I’ll be Watching You: Military Dependents under Surveillance

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I know what it means to be watched all too carefully, a phenomenon that’s only grown […]

Tomdispatch

Inequality
Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

By Tony Walker | – In the midst of a pandemic that has wrenched the world off its axis, Lebanon’s precipitous decline has not received […]

The Conversation

Featured
Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno's Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno’s Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The elections in Iraq have brought it briefly back into U.S. headlines, though it is a long time since Americans […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

By Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri | – Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
President Biden reverses Trump cuts to national monuments sacred to Native Americans, restores Bears Ears

President Biden reverses Trump cuts to national monuments sacred to Native Americans, restores Bears Ears

By Diannie Chavez | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden restored Bears Ears National Monument to its previous 1.36 million-acres footprint […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
To  end Fossil Fuels, take the Fight directly to the Corporations - That's how Apartheid Fell

To end Fossil Fuels, take the Fight directly to the Corporations – That’s how Apartheid Fell

By Donna Katzin | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – On September 9, Harvard University President Larry Bacow heralded the university’s commitment to shift […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 548
  • Page 549
  • Page 550
  • Page 551
  • Page 552
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

The Conversation

Featured

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Afghanistan

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

The Conversation

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
  • Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved