In Biden’s visit to Surfside, a faint ray of hope
Opinion by Frida Ghitis As we watch the efforts of search and rescue teams at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, and…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis As we watch the efforts of search and rescue teams at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, and…
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) came together to support the people of Surfside, Florida, after a condo building…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been hard at work raising his profile within the national Republican Party. Between…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter All term long the Supreme Court has been the target of political players as members of…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN When New York prosecutors unsealed their indictment Thursday against the Trump Organization and its chief financial…
Continue ReadingNew York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization, the Trump Payroll Corporation and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg in connection with…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Areva Martin Bill Cosby’s publicist Andrew Wyatt said that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Cosby’s…
Continue ReadingBill Cosby, the first high-profile celebrity criminal trial of the #MeToo era, was released from prison after three years when Pennsylvania’s highest…
Continue ReadingTrump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was led into court in handcuffs before prosecutors charged him with 15 felony counts including a scheme to…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Depending on you and your life experiences, Bill Cosby is either an abuser or the latest Black man to fall prey…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Joshua A. Douglas Eight years ago, the US Supreme Court gutted a major portion of the Voting Rights Act in its infamous Shelby County v.…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Daniel Dale, CNN There is no honest denying of the fact that New York City’s Board of Elections is a problem-plagued,…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week,…
Continue ReadingBy David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst On Wednesday, America learned of the death of Donald Rumsfeld. Though he was one man, it’s hard…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Rana Mitter A hundred years ago, sometime in July 1921, 13 young men gathered in the Chinese city of Shanghai to found a tiny political…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Robert C. Gottlieb CNN and other news organizations have reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that a Manhattan grand jury…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Donald Trump has long evaded the consequences of his questionable business ethics and personal and political…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Rick Steves I’m a hard-working, kid-raising, churchgoing, tax-paying American. And if I work hard all day and want to go home, smoke…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kara Alaimo Bill Cosby, who has been accused of misconduct by 60 women, was released from prison Wednesday after Pennsylvania’s…
Continue ReadingCNN’s Brynn Gingras…
Continue ReadingVictoria Valentino, one of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, says that the decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to vacate…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Don Lincoln On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery was launched. Discovery’s engines and boosters thundered away as the…
Continue ReadingArick Wierson and Bradley Honan The hugely consequential New York City Democratic Primary election took place last Tuesday, June 22, and the winner…
Continue ReadingCNN presidential historian Tim Naftali analyzes a C-SPAN poll that ranks former President Donald Trump as the worst living…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Even though President Donald Trump famously boasted he would be “more presidential than any president…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Nicole Hemmer During the insurrection in January, a rioter hoisted a Confederate flag over his shoulder, letting it furl out behind him as…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Harry Enten, CNN The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a total mess. The city’s Board of Elections, known for previous…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The counting error in New York’s mayoral primary is the last kind of screwup American democracy needed. Not…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Thomas Balcerski On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, including for the first time former…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Michael D’Antonio During the 2016 election campaign a new political phenomenon emerged: journalists seemed to take then-candidate…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan outlasted the first three commanders in chief of this…
Continue ReadingCNN’s Chris Cuomo and former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen discuss former President Trump’s potential future legal…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson Imagine going to work knowing that millions of people want you to quit. We’re not talking about a football…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Paula Newton In the words of Chief Bobby Cameron, it is time to listen to the “whispers” of past children. The leader of…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Hanif Kara On Thursday, the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, left 11 dead and 150 still unaccounted for.…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Norman Eisen, E. Danya Perry and John Cuti As long-time criminal law practitioners, we know that the Monday meeting held between New York…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Congress is trying again Tuesday on removing Confederate statues from the US Capitol. The House is expected to…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jill Filipovic Republicans sure do have a bizarre definition of “patriotism.” Prominent members of the GOP are outraged that…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN There are more and more mixed messages on masks, even for those vaccinated against Covid-19. The World Health…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Fortuna Smukler My husband woke me up last Thursday morning at 6 a.m .to let me know that Champlain South had partly collapsed. I grew up,…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Luke McGee, CNN Westminster, the beating heart of British politics, is very worried about how safe the UK government’s most…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Former President Donald Trump is facing a wall of accountability and truth as new revelations and investigations…
Continue ReadingOpinion by David A. Andelman Last week, Russian forces spied the British destroyer HMS Defender on routine patrol in the Black Sea. Specifically, a…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Now you tell us. He suspected it was all “bullsh*t” all along, says Bill Barr, the former attorney…
Continue ReadingCNN’s John Avlon gives a reality check on former Attorney General Bill Barr distancing himself from former President Donald Trump’s claims that the…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kent Sepkowitz Weeks after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer vaccine for adolescents, the United States hit a…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Sonia Pruitt Congress is now in recess, and only has a “framework” for a police reform bill from the Senate. Since early…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Peniel E. Joseph The man best known for popularizing the term “Black power” always answered the phone with the words,…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Elie Honig William Barr’s image rehabilitation tour has begun. Don’t buy it. Despite Barr’s belated, post-election…
Continue ReadingNASA Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN’s Pamela Brown that he has read the classified version of the US intelligence report on the series of UFO…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN That Joe Biden’s cherished bipartisan infrastructure plan was nearly destroyed by a few of his own…
Continue ReadingUtah Sen. Mitt Romney tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that President Biden is a “man of honor” and “I do take the president at his…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson A new generation of US cold warriors just got some powerful validation. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Dean Obeidallah It must have been a dream come true for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia Republican got a standing ovation as one…
Continue ReadingCNN’s Donie O’Sullivan was on the scene at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wellington, Ohio, where he spoke with diehard supporters who…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson “China lied and Americans died.” With those words, Elise Stefanik, the number three Republican in the House…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Neelu Tummala “I’m sorry I’m late Dr. Tummala,” a patient tells me at the start of a recent clinic appointment.…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Friday evening the US intelligence community released something remarkable: An unclassified report…
Continue ReadingBy Richard Galant, CNN In 2008, Brian Sicknick reached out to Sandra Garza on a dating site. She responded quickly and when they decided to date,…
Continue ReadingOpinion by John Duffy I work with a remarkable teenager who is figuring out where she fits in the LGBTQ+ community. Meanwhile, her mother is…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Fatima Goss Graves and Sean Garvey Ever since the 10th grade, 26-year-old Briana Phillips has wanted a job in the trades. Since then, she…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Michael D’Antonio Former Vice President Mike Pence is seizing his chance. After four humiliating years playing the role of the…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Three words for you: summer box office. It’s that time of the year, and Hollywood is betting that folks…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Jeremy Diamond, CNN After four hours in this city on the US-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris was all smiles as she walked…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Salma Abdelaziz, CNN Aima, 19, is one of Britain’s most prominent Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, but at a protest in London…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN In President Joe Biden‘s America, there are shades of gray between red and blue. While Biden is preaching that…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kobi Karp When sunrise paints the skyline of downtown Miami in hues of gold, blue, orange and pink, the light sliding across the…
Continue ReadingIn an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Andy Alvarez became emotional telling families to have hope and spoke of his…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN The Republicans eyeing presidential bids in 2024 must strike a delicate balance: Attract President Donald…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Elliot Williams A chapter in American history closed Friday, with Derek Chauvin receiving a sentence of 270 months, or 22.5 years, for the…
Continue ReadingCNN’s Anderson Cooper talks with conservative lawyer George Conway about former President Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani’s suspension from…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Nicole Hemmer The Supreme Court’s latest free-speech ruling involves a cheerleader, Snapchat and a string of four-letter words.…
Continue ReadingBy Paul Callan In a carefully reasoned and evidence-packed decision, a New York State appellate court suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Sarah Damaske An engaged mother of three, Vanessa worked as a certified nursing assistant, making just above minimum wage. She had no…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large There’s no more contentious issue in the already heated debate over election reform than the…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Thursday night, the impossibility of being Mike Pence came into sharp relief. Speaking to the…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brian Lowry, CNN In the 13 years since “Taken,” Liam Neeson has worked practically nonstop, including a pair of sequels. Yet…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Imara Jones When I was 12 years old, I wore a pink shirt. Right before leaving the house, my stepfather stopped me at the door: “You…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Rob Picheta, CNN The flare-up between a Royal Navy warship and Russian forces near Crimea on Wednesday will have been watched far beyond…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN President Joe Biden is using words not heard in Washington for many a long year, like “trust,”…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Scott Jennings In life, he was a Bull Moose. Over one hundred years since his death, however, President Teddy Roosevelt is being bullied…
Continue ReadingOpinion by John Avlon New York City is often seen as the essence of big city liberalism. There’s no question that it’s a Democratic city…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Lanhee J. Chen After many failed efforts, it may finally be infrastructure week in America. A bipartisan group of US Senators has agreed…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, Jenni Marsh and Caitlin Hu, CNN Jimmy Lai fled mainland China more than 60 years ago, smuggling himself into Hong Kong…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Most Americans can and will get vaccinated. Full stop. The stragglers will be key to stopping Covid, however, and…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large When Joe Biden would talk on the 2020 campaign trail about the need to rekindle bipartisanship in…
Continue ReadingWith a growing number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered in the US, many Americans have reemerged into public spaces after over a year of…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis From the moment Joe Biden announced he would run for the White House, he made it clear the driving motivation behind his…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week,…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Ask any national Republican who their best candidate is to beat freshman Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D)…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Tesla had a stellar 2020: The electric car maker was added to the S&P 500 and the stock surged an…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was a dark day in American history. The…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Jack Turban and Jules Gill-Peterson Not long ago, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — who opposes passing the Equality…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brian Lowry, CNN Almost 30 years after becoming the “new guy” in late-night TV, Conan O’Brien is closing that chapter…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst The two top officials in Afghanistan are meeting Friday with President Joe Biden at a moment…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN President Joe Biden will validate a foundational pillar of his presidency on Thursday — a quest to court…
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Nic Robertson, International Diplomatic Editor Earlier this week, a lone Taliban gunman with a red skull cap and a rifle sauntered up to…
Continue ReadingBritney Spears asked a court to end her conservatorship, calling it “abusive” and saying she’s been traumatized. CNN’s Stephanie Elam…
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