Eric Davis
@newdemocracy
Eric Davis is Professor of Politcal Science at Rutgers University. He is past Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, author of MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITCAL, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ, and a forthcoming study of global populism
Trump regime is undermining US' position in the world. Yet another way in which Trump is harming US national interests and security
Important to note that almost all democratic countries except the United States have abolished or no longer use the death penalty
Iran War will bring economic hardship not only to the US but the larger global economy. Pressuring Iran thru cutting of its oil exports would have been much more effective in toppling the Tehran regime than Trump & Netanyahu's' ill-conceived war. See my: new-middle-east.blogspot.com/2026/03/will...
Sign the petition to fight Israel's death penalty law for Palestinians which is part of Itamar Ben-Gver and the Israeli far-right's efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Gravesite of children killed in a girls' school bombed by US and Israel in Minab, southern Iran, near a naval base on the Persian Gulf. Burials are taking place today, March 3, 2026. There are other ways to rid Iran of its brutal regime without killing Iran's children
Chart showing how China is reducing its carbon footprint, unlike the United States which is moving in the opposite direction. US lost $115 billion last year in climate change related damage to the American economy
As this Statistica chart demonstrates, corruption weakens democracy. With Trump violating the Emoluments clauses of the US Constitution with impunity, and making almost 1 and a half $billion since becoming POTUS in January 2025, he is undermining the strength of American democracy
All that glitters is not gold. Trump's minions enjoying the White House on February 2, 2026, while people die from lack of health care, not enough money to feed their families and no government support for high heating bills in a devastatingly cold winter in the Eastern and Mid-Western US (AP photo)
Deaths caused by ICE will continue to rise because agents aren't properly trained and have been given rigid quotas of immigrants to fill by Stephen Miller and Noem's Department of Homeland Security
Trump Finally Told Americans What This Was All About. Not a word about democracy or a democratic transition in Venezuela at Trump's press briefing. The elected democratic opposition which won Venezuela's elections in 2024 has been sidelined. It's all about oil & money www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...
Trump health fears as staff 'panicking' about major problem - 'he keeps falling asleep, 'He gets angry' www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
Grotesque that Trump hosts lavish "Great Gatsby" Mar-a-Lago Halloween party (Jay Gatsby is all about being rich) while 42 million Americans face cut off of their food supplies www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza. Really Mr. Stephens?? Here are images of starvation at Auschwitz and starvation in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...
More than half of the tax cuts in the GOP's Mega Bill go to the richest 5% in the US. Low income taxpayers will see little economic relief. Tax curs for rich are permanent, those for lower income Americans will disappear after Trump leaves office. Entire cynical bill is dishonest in its impact on US
This chart underscores need of countries to take population decline seriously, not through domestic natalist policies which haven't worked at all to date. If they don't, extremist politics will spread as jobs disappear and citizens become even more anxious about the future precarity they are facing
Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention. And now we have new insect-infected "Alligator Alcatraz" in middle of Big Cypress National Reserve that DJT mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt brags about. Many Floridians don't like its concentration camp symbolism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...
Two charts from Statistica tell us why a massive sociopolitical & economic crisis is on the horizon. The problem is that Western countries where displaced people & refugees want to go are adamantly against allowing them immigrant status & doing nothing to solve the crisis B4 it becomes overwhelming
The New Yorker, in its January 20, 2025 cover, was too quick to bestow the title of "Co-POTUS" on Elon Muck who's now on his way out of the White House and DOGE (but still enriching himself through $billions in USG contracts to fund his many business which are paid for by your and my tax dollars).
Tesla stocks continue their precipitous drop in value. Seems like his DOGE gambit has won Musk no new fans
I want to wish all my Muslim friends and colleagues a Ramadan Kareem. !رمضان كريم
This chart from The New York Times indicates Elon Musk's conflicts of interest as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)