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

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
European Union

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

09/12/2025 By Tomdispatch

More Stories

Iran
Biden and the Iran nuclear deal: what to expect from the negotiations

Biden and the Iran nuclear deal: what to expect from the negotiations

By Ali Bilgic | – As Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, speculation was rife that one of […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner:  Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner: Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson | – ( ProPublica ) – President Joe Biden has ordered enough vaccines to immunize every American against COVID-19, […]

ProPublica

Epidemics
Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s national health system, an artefact of its past as a country founded by socialists, has allowed the country of […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

She remains restrained by a travel ban and limits on public appearances

Global Voices

Epidemics
WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn't Ground Zero

WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn’t Ground Zero

By Dominic Dwyer | – As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian […]

The Conversation

Civil Rights
90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is sinking, shrinking, slip-sliding away. My wife is […]

James A. Haught

Featured
We can do this:  Americans put in massive 17 Gigawatts of Wind Power in 2020 despite Pandemic, Recession, and Neanderthal Conservatives

We can do this: Americans put in massive 17 Gigawatts of Wind Power in 2020 despite Pandemic, Recession, and Neanderthal Conservatives

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While conservatives like Texas governor Greg Abbott and Tucker Carlson have been busy putting down wind turbines as unreliable, America […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

( Middle East Monitor) – It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court […]

Asa Winstanley

Electricity Cost
How the Texas electricity system produced low-cost power but left residents out in the cold

How the Texas electricity system produced low-cost power but left residents out in the cold

By Theodore J. Kury | – Americans often take electricity for granted – until the lights go out. The recent cold wave and storm in […]

The Conversation

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 660
  • Page 661
  • Page 662
  • Page 663
  • Page 664
  • …
  • Page 3025
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Academic Freedom

Celebrating Court Ruling Striking down Trump’s $2 Billion Funding Freeze on Harvard

Middle East Studies Association

Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Iran

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

Juan Cole

Brazil

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Middle East Monitor

Popular

  • Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators' Offices in Qatar
  • Is Trump Christian America's Golden Calf?
  • How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
  • Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover
  • While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved