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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…

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…

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN This week’s high profile summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin was markedly…

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the California-Nevada border, illustrate the effects of drought…

Analysis by Luke McGee and Nicole Gaouette, CNN Joe Biden’s first overseas trip as US President — a whistle-stop diplomatic tour of…

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.…

Opinion by Kica Matos On Wednesday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland vacated two Trump-era immigration decisions that had narrowed the range of…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Friday afternoon, former President Donald Trump made it official: He is actively working to oust…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticizes teaching critical race theory in schools, where he accuses it of being as racist as Klansmen in white…

Opinion by Nicole Hemmer The moral panic around critical race theory, an academic legal framework for analyzing structural racism, reached a new…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN The Republican Party has turned to another page in the authoritarian playbook as it whitewashes the history of…

CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the GOP continues to perpetuate lies about the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol despite being there and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Opinion by Natasha S. Alford In response to the accusations of colorism in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s highly anticipated movie adaptation of…

Opinion by Diana Butler Bass The Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville this week narrowly elected a less hard-line leader in Ed Litton, but…

By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst Once again, the Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The conservative-leaning…

Opinion by Reshma Ramacha​ndran and Joseph S. Ross Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aducanumab as a treatment for…

Opinion by Carrie Sheffield President Joe Biden repeated “America is back” during his G7 trip, yet in many aspects, his foreign policies…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Out of office and having shut down his revolutionary communications site blog, former President…

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…

Opinion by Don Lincoln “The Truth is Out There” is the tagline for “The X-Files,” the Fox Network television show that aired…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson and Maeve Reston, CNN President Joe Biden now turns to a puzzle almost as thankless as negotiating with Vladimir Putin…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Analysis by Matthew Chance and Luke McGee, CNN Even before US President Joe Biden met with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, expectations were low.…

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…

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…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The stated purpose of HR 3325 seemed pretty uncontroversial: “To award four congressional gold…

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…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large With Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin huddling Wednesday in Geneva it’s worth remembering a similar…

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…

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…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Donald Trump is still publicly undecided about whether he will run for president again in 2024. Mike…

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN President Joe Biden is girding himself for an epic confrontation of democracy vs. autocracy at his meeting with…

Opinion by Jeremy Samuel Faust and Michael J. Mina Barring a major change, Tokyo will host the Games of the XXXII Olympiad starting late next month.…

Opinion by Jill Filipovic You know there’s something deeply wrong with American conservatism when a Republican member of Congress has to go to…

President Joe Biden arrived in Geneva ahead of lengthy and contentious talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the capstone on a European tour.…

Opinion by Elie Honig The newly-revealed series of emails sent by former President Donald Trump’s senior advisers after Trump’s 2020…

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks to Amanpour about how President Biden and NATO can deal with Russia ahead of Biden’s meeting with…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Joe Biden’s showdown with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday is one of the most critical summits of…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large “Pure insanity.” That’s how Richard Donoghue, the principal associate deputy…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large As the FBI has continue to make arrests of those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, amateur…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Joe Biden is giving Vladimir Putin a carrot. One theory about Russia’s post-Cold War resentment of the US is…

Opinion by Sam Liccardo In my city, a mass shooting took the lives of nine people at a transit rail yard in May. In the three weeks since, while…

Opinion by Senator Ben Ray Luján and John Feinblatt In recent months, Americans have received a string of horrific reminders that even as Covid…

Opinion by Roxanne Jones A few weeks ago, a meeting was not going well. My business partner had just shut down a room of wealthy, powerful White men.…

Analysis by Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The United Kingdom’s first new trade deal since Brexit is a sobering reminder of the mammoth task it…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made one thing very clear: He is going to work very hard to…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated he will refuse to confirm a Supreme Court nominee picked by Biden in 2024 if the GOP wins back the…

Opinion by Jim Langevin and Michael T. McCaul Over the past several weeks, many Americans have become intimately familiar with the national security…

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst For the first time the United States has a government-wide strategy to counter domestic…

Opinion by Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin has emerged as the progressives’ new favorite politician to…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Mitch McConnell just did it again. The Senate minority leader, whose dubious maneuvering to turn the Supreme Court…

Opinion by Anthony David The new Israeli government sworn into power on Sunday is a motley coalition of political parties with no common ideology…

By Peggy Drexler Last week, Matt Schembechler, son of the celebrated University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, came forward to detail…

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN First we learned that former President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice secretly obtained records about…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson US presidents don’t normally go to Europe and keep talking about China. But Joe Biden thinks he’s convinced…

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni hopes that, after Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli leaders can stop the blame game and start listening to each…

Opinion by Dana Rapoport In 2015, I was a news producer for Al Jazeera America (AJAM). I was familiar with well-rehearsed politicians, whose…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large If President Joe Biden wants to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, he had better hope a seat opens up…

Opinion by Rosa Prince There is a mystique that surrounds any meeting between the Queen of England and a President of the United States. She may be a…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Rand Paul has a very interesting view on American democracy: He’s not a fan. “The idea of…

Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN England’s plan to lift all Covid-19 restrictions on June 21 has been scuppered by the Delta variant of the virus,…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The final days of a Supreme Court term are bathed in drama, with the justices typically holding the…

Opinion by Jeanne Martinet The other day a friend texted me to see if I wanted to join her and two other people for dinner outside at a neighborhood…

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Within the last week, we’ve learned that the Trump Department of Justice sought data from Apple…

Analysis by Natalie Gallón and Matt Rivers, CNN Nicaragua’s already fragile democracy is quickly backsliding into a dictatorship. President…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Democrats are demanding sworn testimony from Donald Trump’s former attorneys general in an exploding scandal…

Opinion by Dean Obeidallah It feels as if every day we read about another disorderly passenger on a commercial flight. But in reality, the numbers…

Analysis by Stephen Collinson Joe Biden will this week confront two relentless forces that could seriously hamper his presidency: Vladimir Putin and…

Opinion by Ahshel Pfeffer On May 31, Naftali Bennett, the right-wing politician who became Israel’s new prime minister on Sunday, finally broke…

Analysis by Hadas Gold, CNN He’s been dubbed King Bibi, the magician, the great survivor, and has held records as both the youngest and…