Juan Cole / Informed CommentMar 19, 2018
Ford and other U.S. car companies really, really need electric sport utility vehicles in order to get through the coming years. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentMar 18, 2018
Donald Trump's conviction that being president means doing whatever the hell you please is likely to cause him legal trouble. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentMar 15, 2018
While it isn’t clear whether the president has a policy in Syria, the Department of Defense is failing to achieve its goals and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is issuing empty threats. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / Informed CommentMar 1, 2018
Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., propose a bipartisan resolution to take the Pentagon out of the conflict started by Saudi Arabia in 2015. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 27, 2018
The government offers no explanation for the seismic upheaval in the Saudi officer corps, but it is widely believed that the palace is impatient with the Yemen war quagmire. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 26, 2018
Despite significant problems and unequal income distribution, Iran’s economy is seeing bright spots that the Western press rarely admits. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 24, 2018
The rapid rise of green power and the decline of coal are occurring despite a Trump administration determined to put its thumb on the scale for fossil fuels. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 21, 2018
One of the most distressing takeaways from the country's civil war is that the United Nations does not work and the hopes of the framers of its 1945 charter have been dashed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 19, 2018
It's simple: semi-automatic rifles. President Trump keeps droning on about gang violence. Could this offer a path to legislating restrictions on these firearms? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentFeb 16, 2018
Schools have repeatedly been struck from the air by Saudi, UAE, Moroccan and Jordanian pilots using American-supplied planes and bombs, in a campaign backed by Washington and the United Kingdom. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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