Informed Comment daily updates (03/23/2024)

 

Is ISIL attack on Moscow Concert Blowback for Chechnya and Syria? Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday an ISIL terrorist team killed dozens of people and wounded over 145 at the Crocus City Music Hall on the outskirts of Moscow. They later announced that they had committed the deed. The four attackers sprayed the crowd with machine gun fire and threw grenades, setting the facility […]

Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050 By Philip Kofi Adom, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming is not limited to below 2°C, a new study by the Center for Global Development has found. Environment and energy economist Philip Kofi Adom is the author of the report. […]

Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data By Simon Marshall-Shah | ( Michigan Advance ) – Without equitable data systems, governmental policies will always come up short of fairly representing all of the people they are intended to serve.  It is with that in mind that we at the Michigan League for Public Policy and many of our partners have long advocated […]

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