2018

“At Cox’s Bazar, five thousand acres of forest have already been destroyed.”

Featured

A New Middle East: Winners and Losers from Trump’s Abrupt Syria Withdrawal

Juan Cole

Israel is gradually losing options for asserting itself over its neighbors militarily

BDS

Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone

Tracey L. Rogers

Democracy in its current iteration can no longer sustain us

Turkey

Trump Leaves Syria, then Turkey Announces $3.5 bn Patriot Missile Buy

AFP

The Trump admin. had issued an ultimatum after US outrage over the NATO ally’s earlier plans to buy from Russia.

Qur'an

Islamophobia & the Misuse of History: Isaiah 29 and Attacks on my “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”

Juan Cole

The book is academic history, and I genuinely had an open mind when I approached the writing of it

Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”

H. Patricia Hynes

The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”

Donald Trump

What did Flynn Know about Russian ties to Trump and When did he Know it?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Disgraced former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, had his sentencing postponed until March on Tuesday after Judge Emmett Sullivan raked him over the coals for lying to the FBI in the White House and for intimating that he was not really guilty and had been entrapped by […]

Yemen