Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style: Wars Without Victories, Weapons Without End
By William J. Astore | – (Tomdispatch.com) – The expression “self-licking ice cream cone” was first used in 1992 to describe a hidebound bureaucracy at […]
Why the First Democratic Primary should be in Illinois
Ann Arbor (informed Comment) – The custom of Iowa having the first Democratic primary (or as they are pleased to arrange it, caucus) goes back […]
Filthy Rich: How America’s Unprecedented Inequality is Literally Killing Us
“The 500 richest people in the world…gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019, further exacerbating inequities that have not been seen since the […]
The Senate’s Make-Believe Trial of Donald Trump
(Otherwords.org) – In my 40 years as a lawyer, I’ve never seen a trial flout the basic requirements for fairness so brazenly. By Mitchell Zimmerman […]
We Can’t Stop what We Can’t Visualize: How We can Get our Minds around the Climate Crisis
Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The climate crisis suffers from an odd contradiction. The seriousness of the issue is not matched by […]
On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Generations of orators have told the story that if you put a frog in a pan of steaming water it […]
Trump’s Middle East ‘vision’ is a disaster that will only make things worse
By Tony Walker< | - US President Donald Trump’s “vision” for Israelis and Palestinians is not a realistic peace plan to end a decades-old conflict. […]
How the Trump Administration is Moving us Closer to Nuclear Midnight
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, saw something shocking on his computer. […]
The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More
By Rajan Menon | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the […]
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