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Britney Spears’ lack of autonomy is chilling
Opinion by Kara Alaimo On Wednesday, Britney Spears told a judge she’s “traumatized” and “angry” because she…
Continue ReadingWhy Andrew Yang’s mayoral campaign failed
Opinion by Lincoln Mitchell As soon as the election returns started coming in Tuesday night in New York City, it was clear things had not gone well…
Continue ReadingHow ‘red flag’ laws could prevent workplace shootings
Opinion by Ronald Zambrano Last month, Samuel Cassidy, a “disgruntled” employee, gunned down nine people at a San Jose Valley Transit…
Continue ReadingPeople hate Congress. Again.
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large For the briefest of moments, Congress had what every middle schooler dreams of: rising popularity.…
Continue ReadingCrime is becoming one of America’s biggest political issues
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The post-reopening murder wave is about to become a major subject of conversation. Murders have gone up in 2021, and…
Continue ReadingRising crime puts Democrats on edge
Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst Democrats are feeling the lure of “law and order.” President Joe Biden is set to deliver…
Continue ReadingWhy lawsuit-happy Texas Republicans win even when they lose
Opinion by James Moore The state of Texas is lawsuit happy. Almost every time the White House or Congress institutes a law that Texas leadership…
Continue ReadingBritney Spears not only blazed a trail, she might just make us better humans
Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN When the world thinks “troubled” Britney Spears, the paparazzi captured images of her with a shaved…
Continue ReadingCould alien astronomers have spotted Earth?
Opinion by Lisa Kaltenegger The news that we’ll soon have an unclassified report sent to Congress on “unidentified aerial…
Continue ReadingDon’t miss the latest evidence Ron DeSantis is *definitely* getting ready to run for president
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Even as Donald Trump continues to stoke insane conspiracy theories about how he will be…
Continue ReadingThe utter predictability of Jared and Ivanka ghosting Donald Trump
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Here’s the paragraph you need to read today: “With each passing day away from Washington,…
Continue ReadingI can’t forgive the people who won’t admit my partner, Brian Sicknick, was a hero
Opinion by Sandra Garza In late 2008, while on a popular dating site, I received a message in my inbox from a good-looking, dark-haired man with…
Continue ReadingFive years after the Brexit vote, the United Kingdom is more divided than ever
Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Britain was a very different place in 2006. Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the financial crisis that would go on to…
Continue ReadingWhy Biden didn’t do more to avert voting rights defeat
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN If the expansive voting rights bill suffocated in the Senate on Tuesday was the most critical defense of American…
Continue Reading‘Ridiculous’: Schumer slams Republicans for blocking Democrats’ voting rights bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor moments after Republicans voted in unison to not open debate on the Democrats’…
Continue ReadingTrump’s ‘book of all books’ undoubtedly a work of fiction
Opinion by Michael D’Antonio Watch out, Holy Bible! Step aside, Don Quixote! Former President Donald Trump says he’s writing “the…
Continue ReadingWars will last forever if Congress won’t acknowledge they’re over
Opinion by Heather Brandon-Smith and Diana Ohlbaum These days, getting Democrats and Republicans — Congress and the President — to agree…
Continue ReadingThis is democracy in America in 2021
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Efforts to update the way Americans vote in local elections were met in New York with some grousing, while efforts…
Continue ReadingDemocrats, act now to protect US democracy from death spiral
Opinion by Barbara Arnwine, William J. Barber II, Penda Hair, Jesse Jackson Sr. Tuesday’s party-line vote in the US Senate to kill debate on…
Continue ReadingDonald Trump keeps stoking ‘reinstatement’ talk
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Donald Trump continues to openly discuss the possibility that he will be reinstated as president,…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s great reopening is encountering some turbulence
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Can anybody fly a plane? Everything is opening at the same time and people are desperate to travel. As concerts…
Continue ReadingWhere another Trump presidency could take America
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat “It’s a fragile time for our democracy,” said US Rep. Eric Swalwell, disclosing earlier this month that the…
Continue ReadingBritain has a big education problem. Lawmakers from Boris Johnson’s party are trying to make it about ‘White privilege’
Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Lawmakers from the UK’s governing Conservative party are being accused of weaponizing inequalities in the…
Continue ReadingHow Brazil’s fear of losing the Amazon guides Bolsonaro’s policies towards the forest
Analysis by Luiz Romero In 2000, when the internet in Brazil was still in its infancy, an email with an alarming message about the Amazon went viral.…
Continue ReadingHow the NFL is holding up a mirror to American society
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Pro football is, by far, America’s favorite sport. The ratings for NFL games dominate the…
Continue ReadingAmerican workers don’t want to go back to normal, and that makes sense
Johnny Paycheck sang “Take this job and shove it” in 1977. Today, it may well be the mantra for the post-COVID…
Continue ReadingWhy Democrats were desperate to win Joe Manchin’s vote for an already-doomed election bill
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Tuesday night, the “For the People” Act will fail. There is a 0% chance that the…
Continue ReadingMy 6-year-old just had his first encounter with racism
Opinion by Keith Magee A short while ago, my little boy told me something that shattered my world. I had been preparing breakfast for him, watching…
Continue ReadingHow Democrats can defy history in 2022
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein The huge voter turnout over the past three elections could scramble the usual dynamics of midterm voting —…
Continue ReadingThe pandemic wrought a new America
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN America is heading into a best of times, worst of times summer as the longed-for promise of deliverance from…
Continue ReadingNew Yorkers flummoxed by a new way of picking their mayor
Opinion by Jill Filipovic As ranked-choice voting rolls out in New York City, there are some hiccups. While the process of ranked-choice voting is…
Continue ReadingSen. Ron Johnson gets heckled at Juneteenth event
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) got an earful from voters while attending a Juneteenth rally. Johnson told reporters that the boos were “not how you heal the…
Continue ReadingWhy Stacey Abrams is open to Joe Manchin’s voting rights proposal
Opinion by Keith Boykin This week Democrats will try to advance a sweeping new voting rights bill in the US Senate. The legislation, which passed the…
Continue ReadingThe big problem with the NCAA ruling
By Jeff Pearlman If you’ve done this sports writing job long enough, you have stories. Stories about high school athletes being plucked from…
Continue Reading1 in 3 Americans believe the ‘Big Lie’
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large “Some men you just can’t reach.” That famous line from the movie “Cool Hand…
Continue ReadingSCOTUS dunks on NCAA
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The US Supreme Court changed the rules on college sports Monday, determining that student athletes can be…
Continue ReadingThe coming days could make or break Joe Biden’s presidential legacy
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN The coming days will go a long way to deciding if Joe Biden’s presidency is one for the history books, or…
Continue ReadingThis poll should set off alarm bells for Senate Republicans
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large There have been a few constants over the past 40 or so years in Iowa: the butter cow at the state…
Continue ReadingRon Johnson learned the hard way this weekend that actions have consequences
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has been an outlier in his swing state for much of the last several years.…
Continue ReadingThe real reason Republicans are blocking voting rights legislation
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Republicans justify their plan to block sweeping voting rights legislation in the Senate this week by arguing that…
Continue ReadingWhy is Biden following in Trump’s footsteps on Cuba?
Opinion by Jorge Dávila Miguel The United States will experience a diplomatic defeat at the United Nations on June 23, yet again. Every year since…
Continue ReadingTrump World’s latest crazy idea could be good for Democrats
Opinion by Dean Obeidallah Close your eyes and picture this come January 2023. “Speaker of the House: Donald J. Trump.” If you are like…
Continue ReadingIran elected a hard-liner. Let’s see what he does now
Opinion by David A. Andelman Perhaps now that Iran has chosen to install a new, ultra-conservative judiciary chief as its next president, it’s…
Continue ReadingVaccinated Republicans are going out far more than vaccinated Democrats
There are fewer new cases of COVID-19 in the US in more than a year. The response from an increasing number of Americans has been to resume a lot of…
Continue ReadingCNN attorney and reporter discuss obtaining Capitol riot videos
Dozens of the most significant videos capturing the January 6th Capitol riot have yet to be seen by the public because the Justice Department and the…
Continue ReadingThe NY race that could determine Trump’s fate
Opinion by Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN This Tuesday, June 22, New Yorkers will head to the polls to select candidates to represent their…
Continue ReadingHow CNN obtained the dramatic videos of the US Capitol riot
Analysis by Katelyn Polantz, CNN Words can only describe so much from the nearly 500 criminal cases against rioters who overtook the US Capitol on…
Continue ReadingHow this is the most unpredictable NYC mayoral race in 50 years
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN Poll of the week: A new WNBC/Telemundo 47/Politico/Marist College poll finds Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams…
Continue ReadingThe day that delighted progressives
Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN At the age of 89, Opal Lee walked many of the 1,300-plus miles from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, DC, to…
Continue ReadingFor Biden, confronting Putin may have been easier than dealing with Republicans back in Washington
Analysis by John Harwood With confidence and elan, President Joe Biden rallied allies abroad last week around the viability of 21st century…
Continue ReadingHow meeting with Biden put Putin on top of the world
Opinion by Garry Kasparov In the run up to the Geneva summit with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had been on a…
Continue ReadingSeven things to know about the NYC mayoral race
Opinion by Errol Louis The fiercely contested Democratic primary for mayor of New York is the most consequential election in years. There’s no…
Continue ReadingHow mainstream Democrats are flexing their muscle in 2021
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN The first five months of President Joe Biden’s term show the moderate wing of the Democratic Party still has a lot…
Continue ReadingDonald Trump for … speaker of the House?
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Want to hear a crazy idea? Of course you do! Let’s go step by step. 1. Florida gained another…
Continue ReadingPriest: The big question for Catholic bishops is not really about Joe Biden and Communion
Opinion by Father Edward Beck Every time I place Communion in someone’s hand or tongue, it is an act of faith — on my part and on that of…
Continue ReadingKevin Hart does ‘Fatherhood’ and more to watch
Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Father’s Day weekend can mean different things, based on where you are in your life. Not everyone is…
Continue ReadingHow Trump turned Russia into a partisan issue
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN This week’s high profile summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin was markedly…
Continue ReadingThe American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the California-Nevada border, illustrate the effects of drought…
Continue ReadingJoe Biden wooed many on his tour of Europe. It’ll take much more to fix the damage wrought by Trump
Analysis by Luke McGee and Nicole Gaouette, CNN Joe Biden’s first overseas trip as US President — a whistle-stop diplomatic tour of…
Continue ReadingUtah cheerleading photo incident sends a message
Opinion by David M. Perry In second grade, my son’s class finished the school year by doing theatrical re-creations of the books they had read.…
Continue ReadingBiden must end the era of the rocket docket
Opinion by Kica Matos On Wednesday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland vacated two Trump-era immigration decisions that had narrowed the range of…
Continue ReadingThis GOP senator is now Enemy No. 1 for Trump
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Friday afternoon, former President Donald Trump made it official: He is actively working to oust…
Continue ReadingTed Cruz: Critical race theory is as racist as Klansmen
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticizes teaching critical race theory in schools, where he accuses it of being as racist as Klansmen in white…
Continue ReadingThe right is panicking over critical race theory
Opinion by Nicole Hemmer The moral panic around critical race theory, an academic legal framework for analyzing structural racism, reached a new…
Continue ReadingHappy Juneteenth. Here’s the story on US holidays
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN I like holidays so the creation of a new federal observance — Juneteenth, or June 19 — had me looking at…
Continue ReadingMitch McConnell just blew up Joe Manchin’s bipartisan dream
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Bipartisanship is a two-way street. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who has made working across the…
Continue ReadingWhat to expect when Harry heads back to London
Analysis by Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A version of this story appeared in the June 18 edition of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly…
Continue ReadingJustice Samuel Alito swung for the fences on religious liberty and came up short, but isn’t done yet
Analysis by Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Samuel Alito began this Supreme Court term with a public call to arms for greater…
Continue ReadingIn North Korea a packet of coffee costs $100, and that’s a problem for Kim Jong Un
Analysis by Joshua Berlinger and Paula Hancocks, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has bigger problems than the United States right now. He needs…
Continue ReadingThe Republican Party’s mission: whitewash the Trump presidency
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN The Republican Party has turned to another page in the authoritarian playbook as it whitewashes the history of…
Continue Reading‘They’re lying and they know it’: Cooper slams GOP over insurrection
CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the GOP continues to perpetuate lies about the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol despite being there and…
Continue ReadingWhy we’re nervously celebrating Pride this month
Opinion by Allison Hope The whiplash this week is dizzying, as the LGBTQ community processes two critical government moves on back-to-back days. On…
Continue ReadingHere’s why fighting the Affordable Care Act means so much to Republicans
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large For the third time in the last nine years — and this time by a convincing 7-2 vote — the…
Continue ReadingIt’s not only politics that’s driving the low vaccination rate in the South
Opinion by Kent Sepkowitz More than half of the adults in the United States have been at least partially vaccinated against Covid-19, a remarkable…
Continue ReadingObamacare decision could be watershed moment
Opinion by David Axelrod, CNN Senior Political Commentator After the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, a 27-year-old man stopped me on the street…
Continue ReadingIf you think adjusting to life after COVID is tough, imagine going through this
Opinion by Ashish Prashar None of us can scroll through our social media feed or a news app without seeing a story or a post about the loss of our…
Continue ReadingWhy Rita Moreno’s comment about ‘In the Heights’ was terribly wrong
Opinion by Natasha S. Alford In response to the accusations of colorism in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s highly anticipated movie adaptation of…
Continue ReadingSouthern Baptist Convention can dodge a schism, but not its own history
Opinion by Diana Butler Bass The Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville this week narrowly elected a less hard-line leader in Ed Litton, but…
Continue ReadingOn the ACA, Obama will have the last laugh
By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst Once again, the Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The conservative-leaning…
Continue ReadingNew Alzheimer’s drug sets dangerous precedent
Opinion by Reshma Ramacha​ndran and Joseph S. Ross Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aducanumab as a treatment for…
Continue ReadingTrump deserves credit for policies Biden is adopting on foreign policy
Opinion by Carrie Sheffield President Joe Biden repeated “America is back” during his G7 trip, yet in many aspects, his foreign policies…
Continue ReadingWhy Andrew Yang did an abrupt U-turn on identity politics
Analysis 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 ReadingThe 30 most bizarre lines from Donald Trump’s interview with Sean Hannity
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Out of office and having shut down his revolutionary communications site blog, former President…
Continue ReadingWe now have a good sense of how big the ‘Always Trump’ caucus is in Congress
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large In the five months since Donald Trump grudgingly left the White House, one of the central questions…
Continue ReadingScientist: I want to believe in UFOs. Prove me wrong.
Opinion by Don Lincoln “The Truth is Out There” is the tagline for “The X-Files,” the Fox Network television show that aired…
Continue ReadingAfter showdown abroad, Biden faces one at home
Analysis by Stephen Collinson and Maeve Reston, CNN President Joe Biden now turns to a puzzle almost as thankless as negotiating with Vladimir Putin…
Continue ReadingThis Republican House member chose the Constitution over Donald Trump
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his actions during the January 6 US…
Continue ReadingHow worried should you be about the Delta variant?
Analysis y Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The Covid news is contradictory. The country is more open every day and getting back to normal. People who want a…
Continue ReadingA big loss for Putin
Opinion by Frida Ghitis The visuals, the body language and the setting all converged to help President Joe Biden achieve what he wanted — not only…
Continue ReadingHaving Juneteenth as a national holiday offers possibilities Americans can’t ignore
Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph The US Senate’s unanimous passage on Tuesday of a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end…
Continue ReadingPutin got exactly what he wanted from Biden in Geneva
Analysis by Matthew Chance and Luke McGee, CNN Even before US President Joe Biden met with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, expectations were low.…
Continue ReadingJoe Biden’s message to Vladimir Putin? The adults are back in charge.
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large President Joe Biden had one single and simple goal at his press conference in the wake of his summit…
Continue ReadingPutin faces question about cyberattacks against the US
CNN’s Matthew Chance asks Russian President Vladimir Putin if he was committed to stopping cyberattacks on the United States. Hear Putin’s…
Continue ReadingFor Afghan women, the US rhetoric of liberation has fallen short
Opinion by Lina AbiRafeh I first landed in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, in the middle of the sweltering summer of 2002. It had taken four…
Continue ReadingWhy did 21 Republicans oppose honoring those who served on January 6?
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The stated purpose of HR 3325 seemed pretty uncontroversial: “To award four congressional gold…
Continue ReadingThe story of January 6 will be told
Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst In the past several years, some of the most perceptive views of American politics have come from the…
Continue ReadingDon’t ever forget what happened at the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large With Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin huddling Wednesday in Geneva it’s worth remembering a similar…
Continue ReadingThe one question I wasn’t asked during 30 job interviews
Opinion by MacKenzie Nicholson Between July 2020 and April 2021, I applied for more than 30 positions, had dozens of interviews and nearly made it…
Continue ReadingElection workers protected US democracy. Now, we must protect them
Opinion by Lawrence Norden and Matthew Weil As states around the country pass laws that will limit access to voting in the name of baseless election…
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