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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*
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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

“Red Wine!” – the Nightingale cries to the Rose: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:6

08/27/2025 By Juan Cole

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Thugs R Us: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

08/27/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Democratic Party
Top Ten Reasons Liberals have the High Moral Ground

Top Ten Reasons Liberals have the High Moral Ground

In tumultuous sociopolitical struggles, a frequent pattern is visible: Conservatives often fight to preserve their own wealth or privileges, but liberals battle for causes that […]

James A. Haught

Books
Top 5 Books on Islam – Juan Cole’s list at Shepherd

Top 5 Books on Islam – Juan Cole’s list at Shepherd

The new book website Shepherd asked me for a list of what I thought were the best five books on Islam for a general audience. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Will the move to Solar-Wind-Battery Accelerate as Natural Gas Spikes 1000% in Europe with long term price rises expected?

Will the move to Solar-Wind-Battery Accelerate as Natural Gas Spikes 1000% in Europe with long term price rises expected?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anna Shiryaevskaya, Stephen Stapczynski and Ann Koh at Bloomberg.org report that natural gas prices have risen 1,000 percent in Europe […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Is Tunisia's president largely responsible for the disaster he says he is trying to fix with his Coup?

Is Tunisia’s president largely responsible for the disaster he says he is trying to fix with his Coup?

By Adnan Hmidan | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The constitutionally-limited role of the president of the republic in Tunisia doesn’t encourage involvement […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
3 Lessons of Climate-induced Dixie Wildfire as it Destroys Historic Gold Rush Towns

3 Lessons of Climate-induced Dixie Wildfire as it Destroys Historic Gold Rush Towns

By Bart Johnson and David Hulse | – A wildfire burning in hot, dry mountain forest swept through the Gold Rush town of Greenville, California, […]

The Conversation

Children
America’s Child Soldiers:  JROTC and the Militarizing of America

America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America

By Ann Jones | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
Why does he Hate our Freedoms? White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban's Hungarian Fascism as better than America

Why does he Hate our Freedoms? White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban’s Hungarian Fascism as better than America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme white nationalist Tucker Carlson took his Fox Cable “News” show on the road to extreme white nationalist Hungary this […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Students in Gaza Are Back after Israel tried to destroy their future

Palestinian Students in Gaza Are Back after Israel tried to destroy their future

By Wafa Aludaini | – ( Middle East Monitor) – As Palestinian high school students celebrate their success in the Tawjihi exams and plan for […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
A Really big Deal: The New IPCC Climate Report Focuses on Extreme Events and how Coal, Gasoline are Causing them

A Really big Deal: The New IPCC Climate Report Focuses on Extreme Events and how Coal, Gasoline are Causing them

By David Karoly | – On Monday, an extremely important report on the physical science of climate change will be released to the world. Produced […]

The Conversation

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