Seriously, New York? This, now?
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The counting error in New York’s mayoral primary is the last kind of screwup American democracy needed. Not…
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Turns out Donald Trump wasn’t the worst president in US history, historians say
Opinion by Thomas Balcerski On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, including for the first time former…
Continue ReadingTrump’s followers do take him literally
Opinion by Michael D’Antonio During the 2016 election campaign a new political phenomenon emerged: journalists seemed to take then-candidate…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s longest war is ending. A nation is left wondering whether it was all worth it.
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan outlasted the first three commanders in chief of this…
Continue ReadingNorm Eisen: Substantial risk for former President Trump ahead
CNN’s Chris Cuomo and former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen discuss former President Trump’s potential future legal…
Continue ReadingTo quit or not to quit — the question looming over a US Supreme Court justice
Analysis by Stephen Collinson Imagine going to work knowing that millions of people want you to quit. We’re not talking about a football…
Continue ReadingCanada’s reckoning after the discovery of mass graves at former schools
Analysis 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 ReadingHow can a building just collapse?
Opinion by Hanif Kara On Thursday, the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, left 11 dead and 150 still unaccounted for.…
Continue ReadingThe Manhattan DA could complicate Trump’s future
Opinion 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 ReadingHouse tries again on removing Confederate statues
Analysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Congress is trying again Tuesday on removing Confederate statues from the US Capitol. The House is expected to…
Continue ReadingGOP hypocrisy on Gwen Berry and the National Anthem
Opinion by Jill Filipovic Republicans sure do have a bizarre definition of “patriotism.” Prominent members of the GOP are outraged that…
Continue ReadingWhat if the government got it wrong on masks again?
Analysis 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 ReadingMy friends are unaccounted for in the Surfside building collapse, but I’m holding on to hope
Opinion 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 ReadingMinister’s affair caught on camera prompts questions about surveillance among Britain’s political elite
Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Westminster, the beating heart of British politics, is very worried about how safe the UK government’s most…
Continue ReadingWhat Manchin and Sinema can learn from the Lincoln Republicans on voting rights
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th…
Continue ReadingTrump’s false reality is being exposed on multiple fronts
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Former President Donald Trump is facing a wall of accountability and truth as new revelations and investigations…
Continue ReadingUK-Russia naval flap shows Putin’s on edge
Opinion by David A. Andelman Last week, Russian forces spied the British destroyer HMS Defender on routine patrol in the Black Sea. Specifically, a…
Continue ReadingThe rehabilitation tours are underway for Trump’s former officials
Analysis 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 ReadingAvlon: Here’s what’s most important about Trump’s lies
CNN’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 ReadingGreg Abbott’s fight to keep Trump’s border wall dream alive
Analysis 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…
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