Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works […]
Main Content
Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith
By Robert P. Alvarez | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I believe in God and in the right to vote. Georgia’s recent election bill doesn’t […]
More CO2 in our Atmosphere now than any time since 3.6 mn Years Ago, when Oceans were 90 feet higher (that’s our fate)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a scientific shocker, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found that despite the slowdown in carbon dioxide emissions […]
Egyptian Foreign policy under Sisi: diminishing independence in the service of dictatorship
Johannesburg (Special to Informed Comment) – Egyptian foreign policy under the tutelage of Egyptian president Abdul Fattah El-Sisi has seen the country lose much of […]
Trump Held Steady among Religious Believers at the Ballot – the Nonreligious Defeated Him
By Ryan Burge | – For all the predictions and talk of a slump in support among evangelicals, it appears Donald Trump’s election loss was […]
The Pentagon prefers a Conventional War it Can Win, but is likely stuck with Guerrilla Wars it Can’t
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The future isn’t what it used to be. As a teenager in the 1970s, I watched a lot of TV science […]
Iraq Announces end of US Combat Mission in Iraq, further reduction in 2,500 Troops now There
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iraqi News Agency reports that Qasim al-Araji, Iraq’s National Security Adviser, said on Wednesday that his country had reached […]
Mrs. Hemingway, Israel, and the Palestinians
Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the current PBS series on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work, Martha Gellhorn, the journalist and novelist who […]
Lifting Trump’s sanctions on the Int’l Criminal Court doesn’t go Far Enough: The US must uphold International Law
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When the loony right gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference back in February, the theme of the Trump-heavy […]
Islamic Judaism? (Video)
John Tolan | Emir-Stein Center “In the 19th century, some Jewish scholars in Central Europe looked to early Islam and in particular to the Prophet […]