By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, which the Continental Army…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laws have consequences. The Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress (with no…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Only three holders of the top executive offices in the country, the presidency and the vice presidency, have ever…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a state visit to Portugal and Spain last week. He was…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A New York Grand Jury empaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted the former president, Donald John…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The intrepid John Hudson at the Washington Post reports that the US National Intelligence Council has produced a secret…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Now that far, far right Israeli politician Binyamin Netanyahu has been elected, what are the major negative consequences Israel…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite Israeli propaganda about being a democracy that shares values with the liberal West, the country has for some…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wednesday was the fortieth day after the death of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, 22, in the…
On This 4th of July We Need to Declare a War of Independence From Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, which the Continental Army…
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The Biden Effect: Electric Vehicle Sales Skyrocket 79% in US in Q1
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Laws have consequences. The Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Biden administration and the Democrats in Congress (with no…
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The Trials of Donald Trump and Aaron Burr: Three Similarities and Two Differences
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Only three holders of the top executive offices in the country, the presidency and the vice presidency, have ever…
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The Limits of Saudi Normalization With Israel
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration is devoting what energy the State Department has aside from the effort to defend Ukraine to…
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Lula is Right — The UN Security Council Can’t Resolve Major Conflicts
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a state visit to Portugal and Spain last week. He was…
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Trump and the Triviality of Evil
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A New York Grand Jury empaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted the former president, Donald John…
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Iran Discovered To Have 10% of World’s Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China’s EV Industry
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of…
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Emirates Has Spent $154 Million on Lobbying in US Since 2016, Illegally Influenced US Politics
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The intrepid John Hudson at the Washington Post reports that the US National Intelligence Council has produced a secret…
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Top 5 Worst Things Far-Right Netanyahu Could Do As Prime Minister
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Now that far, far right Israeli politician Binyamin Netanyahu has been elected, what are the major negative consequences Israel…
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The Rise of Israeli Fascism as the Swing Vote in Parliament, and the Project of Ethnic Cleansing
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite Israeli propaganda about being a democracy that shares values with the liberal West, the country has for some…
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Iranian Police Fire on Demonstrators Attending Mahsa Amini Memorial
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wednesday was the fortieth day after the death of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, 22, in the…
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Juan Cole: Be Wary of Strongmen in the U.S. and Abroad
The history professor and editor of the blog Informed Comment talks about Islamophobia and foreign relations under President Trump.
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