Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - In the first seven months of 2026, Turkiye generated

“Art is integration,” says David Dark. “Empire is...

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing abject reality.

Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.

The power to impeach secretaries and other executive-branch officers is not well known, but it’s an effective accountability measure.

The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.

Plus: the most distressing media news of the week and the most encouraging

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

Osama bin Laden wanted to eradicate faith in American power. Twenty-five years later, his dream is on the verge of coming true.

The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...

U.S. anti-China tech protectionism is a hot mess that pays empty lip service to consumer privacy and national security.

By Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections | - ( Yale Climate Connectio...

The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.

Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the world

More than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, according to a new survey of 88,125 climate-related studies.

by Karin Kirk, Yale Climate Connections | - ...

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

President Donald Trump came to Michigan this week and delivered a speech that very much had this vibe. And in fact he did say to his subjects, er, the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen of Michigan, the gol...

A common misunderstanding of classical evolutionary theory is that the “fittest” organisms that natural selection favors are merely those who have mastered their environmental milieux. Even in Darwini...

The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.

In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictions

The senator helped persuade Trump to launch a war that has become a quagmire.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - What does the Middle East have to do with the brutal British heat wave that has left thousands dead over the past two months? Everything. The Hormuz Crisis has heate...

Why aren't we talking more about DOGE?

It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.

The retired politician speaks frankly about the Democratic Party, the threat of Trumpian authoritarianism, and the “failure” in Iran.

A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country's richest technofascists.

Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.

Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as they try to justify ye...

What comes after authoritarianism and the golden age of corruption? Billionaires are desperate to abuse their control of mass media to convince you it's anything other than good faith, popular, progre...

Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

The Washington Post's recent wave of billionaire agitprop demonstrates how terrified the extraction class is of informed consensus and the looming possibility of meaningful reform.

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

The Trump FCC wants to saddle corporate media with so many costly legal headaches that they pre-emptively censor voices critical of our mad, idiot king.

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Orban's Hungary was a template for America's shitty right wing zealots. But the propaganda-fueled bullshit machine now sits at the bottom of the sea, drowned by an electorate finally fed up by 16 year...