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Opinion by Robin Chadwin (CNN) — During Hurricane Katrina, the sheer panic and chaos from a disaster of unimaginable scale resulted in heartbreak and grief for pet owners. First responders reportedly refused to allow owners to evacuate their pets with them. Other pet owners mistakenly believed that they would be able to return to their

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It’s a story — young memoirist with an Ivy League law degree tells a compelling story, catapults into the Senate and joins the national political conversation — familiar to anyone who followed the career of Barack Obama. But instead of Obama, the memoirist of the moment is

By Bethany Cianciolo, CNN (CNN) — Capitalism has long been heralded by many economists as the best economic system around, rewarding — and therefore encouraging — competition and innovation, creating wealth, stimulating growth and allowing new ideas to thrive. But if the free-market system is really the best model for any economy to expand, where a country’s

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The Bay Area has long been, and remains, a hippie-dippie bastion of Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. But there’s a small, powerful sect of Silicon Valley billionaires who are carving a path for the maybe-Trumpers and the

Analysis by Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The official launch of the Republican presidential campaign ticket of Donald Trump and JD Vance this week has been closely scrutinized by governments around the globe looking for clues to what a return of an “America First” foreign policy might look like – including in the

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — Donald Trump will pull off his greatest feat yet as Joe Biden confronts his darkest hour. The ex-president, 78, will accept the Republican nomination Thursday, advancing one of the most stunning comebacks in political history after his bid to steal the 2020 election, an unprecedented criminal conviction and

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden just made a false statement about his current polling position. He told BET that “presidents who have won at this stage of the game, the last seven or eight presidents, five of them were losing at this time by significant margins.” A look at history, however,

Opinion by Michelle Leder (CNN) — Ask anyone about their middle school years, and, unless they happened to be the popular kid, you’re likely to get an eye roll. Or worse. More than a few still carry the scars, including one 80-year-old woman I recently spoke to about her middle school experience. Although decades had

Analysis By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Cesar Conde has found himself — yet again — on the receiving end of a stinging on-air rebuke from his high-wattage MSNBC stars. For the second time in only a few months, questions about the NBC News Group chairman’s leadership were raised in extraordinary fashion, with the “Morning

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s a popular idea in political discourse known as the horseshoe theory. The idea is that if you map ideologies on a horseshoe-shaped spectrum, the far right and the far left are actually more closely aligned than the centrists on either side. It’s not exactly a

Analysis by Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The social media industry’s tepid response this week to the conspiracy theories floating wildly on their platforms about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was part of a purposeful shift away from actively policing online speech – even in the face of potentially dangerous rhetoric. The

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Once the leader was on his throne, the ritual capitulation could begin. Donald Trump looked on with an ethereal gaze Tuesday as a parade of Republican presidential candidates whose dreams he crushed staged a parade of the vanquished at the Republican National Convention. On another night awash in

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It was a remarkable moment Monday night at the Republican National Convention, surely creating some amount of confusion among longtime Republicans, when Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, delivered a stemwinder of a speech in prime time. He called former President Donald Trump a

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — News organizations are being confronted this week with a thorny challenge. In the wake of former President Donald Trump narrowly surviving a horrific assassination attempt, executives are more cognizant than ever about the fraught political environment in which they are operating. But news outlets also understand that they must

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Financial markets have a way of responding to chaos that often feels icky. Tragedy strikes and traders (or trading algorithms) sniff out a way to make money off of it. On Jan. 6, 2021, with the Capitol in chaos, the Dow closed at a record high.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has gone from an insurrection to a resurrection. The searing picture of a nation in dystopian decline that defines the ex-president’s politics was largely missing on the first night of the Republican National Convention. In its place was a sense of the divine — a pulsating

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance is the embodiment of the populist, nationalist and blue-collar transformation of the old establishment Republican Party. That’s why ex-President Donald Trump — who never forgets the enthusiasms of his base — picked the Ohio senator as his vice-presidential running mate and effectively named him as a

Opinion by Arwa Damon (CNN) — During past humanitarian missions in Gaza, aid workers like me entered through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, where a sea of human desolation greeted us. An overflow of tents spilled out of schools housing the displaced and blanketed the sidewalks. A handful of vehicles and donkey carts inched

Analysis by Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — On May 7, 1873, Louisiana Gov. William Pitt Kellogg made his way to his carriage following a meeting in New Orleans, when a man named Charles R. Railey confronted him. “I wanted to tell you that you were a cowardly and usurping scoundrel and that if you have

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — A week after she went on National Public Radio to urge the Southern Baptist Convention to officially accept women as pastors, the Rev. Kristen Muse received an unusual letter at her church office. The letter, addressed directly to Muse, was stuffed in a large manila envelope along with three pages