“These first few months [have resulted] in the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific and medical research, clampdown on any efforts promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), newly aggressive policies for […]
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Arab Spring Pt. 2? Massive Crowds forced out Bouteflika, but What Next for Algeria?
What will become of the entrenched political, military, business and tribal interests?
Senators Grill Rick Perry on Transfer of Nuclear Info to Saudi Arabia Despite “Troubling Actions”
“Many deeply troubling actions and statements that have provoked alarm in Congress”
“Free” Markets and the Attack on Democracy
The neoliberal deification of markets has many parents.
Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals
Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.
On how Everything Sam Harris says about Islam is Wrong: Part 2 on “Unbelievers”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is the second installment in a series on Sam Harris’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad book, “The End […]
Did the Same Saudi Hackers who Trapped Khashoggi Target Amazon’s Bezos for Nude Photos?
It has been alleged that the crown prince targeted expatriate Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in part because he had written critically about Trump
Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy
By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so […]
We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem
American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal
Saudi Political Prisoners Face Severe Abuse: Report
The Kingdom is under heavy scrutiny following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October