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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Knights Templar: still loved by conspiracy theorists 900 years on
By Patrick Masters | – On Christmas Day, 1119, the king of Jerusalem, Baldwin II persuaded a group of French knights led by Hugh de […]
How the Education Department Is Ripping Off Defrauded Students
Students who got defrauded by for-profit colleges were going to get loan forgiveness — until Betsy DeVos showed up.
A Subdued Christmas for Middle Eastern Christians amid New Wave of Popular Protests
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chaldean Christians in Iraq have been asked by their Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, to hold subdued private Christmas ceremonies this […]
Breathing Room: Trump v. Dingell
By Bonnie Honig | – ( Politics/Letters ) – Watching Trump in Michigan this week talking about Debbie and John Dingell, I was struck by […]
As India’s Hindu Supremacist Gov’t Moves to deprive 1.5 mn Assamese Muslims of Citizenship, a Solidarity Network Emerges
By Anuradha Sen Mookerjee | – The state of Assam in India is currently burning with violent protests against a new citizenship law passed by […]
Actually we are implicated in the World’s 7th Mass Extinction of Life on Earth
By Julie Celestial | – (The Watchers) – The biodiversity crisis we experience today– defined by the rapid loss of species and rapid degradation of […]
Born Without Civil Rights: Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank
(Human Rights Watch The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free […]
Bush Falsely Promised a New Iraq, but now it is being Forged by Crowds in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square
After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the old system.
Would Refugee Baby Jesus have been Torn from Mary’s Arms by Trump?
Revised Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – – In this political season in which refugees have become a political football, it is worthwhile remembering that […]
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