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

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

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

More Stories

Iran
Secular Shift: In Iran's Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

Secular Shift: In Iran’s Islamic Republic, do only 40% even Consider themselves Muslims?

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki | – Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Climate Emergency Overdrive: Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is astonishing to me that we still have 287 million gasoline vehicles on our roads and that 20 percent […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

Covid Lies: Why Your life Hangs on the Deranged Whims of One Man

A Declaration of Independence from Donald Trump

Martin Powers

Donald Trump
It's a Hawk!  It's a Dove!  It's Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

It’s a Hawk! It’s a Dove! It’s Donald Trump, playing both sides against the Middle

( 48hills.org) – President Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views. That’s a neat trick, since the two groups […]

Reese Erlich

Christianity
Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

Why in the World would Evangelical Christians deny the Human-Caused Climate Emergency?

By Adrian Bardon | – U.S. Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a […]

The Conversation

censorship
Top 4 reasons Trump's Saving "ass" of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Top 4 reasons Trump’s Saving “ass” of Bin Salman over Khashoggi Murder is Shameful and just Wrong

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sonam Sheth and John Haltiwanger at Business Insider have seen Bob Woodward’s Rage, which will be published next Tuesday. They […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

19 years after 9/11, Americans continue to fear foreign extremists and underplay the dangers of domestic terrorism

By Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, and William Parkin | – On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Has Israel's Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

Has Israel’s Plan to Annex the Palestinians been Cancelled or just Postponed?

By Adnan Abu Amer | – Middle East Monitor) – Ever since Israel’s plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank and Jordan […]

Middle East Monitor

Militarization
Generals to the End:  Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

Generals to the End: Patton and Westmoreland walk into a Bar . . .

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve written a fair number of pieces for TomDispatch, but this one is a bit different — some might even say […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 728
  • Page 729
  • Page 730
  • Page 731
  • Page 732
  • …
  • Page 3019
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Democratic Party

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

Climate Crisis

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Environment

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

The Conversation

Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Popular

  • Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don't Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved