Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
Constitution

Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

01/03/2026 By The Conversation

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

01/03/2026 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Republican Party
We're all Living in the World Dick Cheney Made

We’re all Living in the World Dick Cheney Made

(By Mark Danner via a href=”http://www.nybooks.com/”>NYRB and Tomdispatch.com) If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. — Dick Cheney, […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Can Obama make a grand bargain with Iran over Syria?

Can Obama make a grand bargain with Iran over Syria?

(By Shahram Akbarzadeh) The last round of talks to bring some relief to the humanitarian disaster in Syria achieved remarkable nothing. The anti-Assad delegation traded […]

contributors

Human Rights
False Dawn:  The 35th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution

False Dawn: The 35th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution

(By Farhang Jahanpour) The Iranian revolution succeeded exactly 35 years ago this week. After 37 years of rule, Mohammad Reza Shah left Iran on 16 […]

contributors

Barack Obama
Obama & Hollande stress Hope for Iran Breakthrough

Obama & Hollande stress Hope for Iran Breakthrough

(By Juan Cole) In his news conference with French President Francois Hollande, President Obama outlined four areas of diplomatic progress. The first is foreign policy, […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
The Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum

The Arts of the Arab Uprisings at the Arab-American Museum

VOA interviews my colleague Christiane Gruber of the Art History Department at the University of Michigan on the exhibit she helped curate at the Arab-American […]

Juan Cole

CIA
Assassination by Leak:  US floats Trial Balloon of Droning an American to Death

Assassination by Leak: US floats Trial Balloon of Droning an American to Death

(By Tim Cushing) Administration Officials Perform Some Very Public Handwringing Over Extrajudicial Drone Killing (via Techdirt) The administration has sort of painted itself into a […]

contributors

Human Rights
Iraq illegally Jailed thousands of Women, Torture & Abuse Alleged

Iraq illegally Jailed thousands of Women, Torture & Abuse Alleged

(Human Rights Watch) (Baghdad) – Iraqi authorities are detaining thousands of Iraqi women illegally and subjecting many to torture and ill-treatment, including the threat of […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Big Green Energy is Remaking Africa and Asia

Big Green Energy is Remaking Africa and Asia

(By Juan Cole) A significant part of the population of Africa and Asia at present has no access to electricity, and in some countries those […]

Juan Cole

Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief

Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief

Abraham H. Foxman announced he will step down from his position as National Director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, bringing to a […]

News Aggregator

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 1953
  • Page 1954
  • Page 1955
  • Page 1956
  • Page 1957
  • …
  • Page 3065
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Featured

Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

Fariba Amini

Iran

“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31

Juan Cole

Israel Lobby

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Binoy Kampmark

Dissent

Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark

The Conversation

Popular

  • Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
  • Why is the United States Drawn to War?
  • Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions
  • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society (Review)
  • What "Loving-Kindness" Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved