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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It’s officially the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, an affair that has felt bonkers for months. Americans witnessed the sitting Democratic president drop out of the race, the Republican nominee narrowly escape an assassination attempt and the rise of the first woman of color on

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — OpenAI may very well be the future of Silicon Valley, the next Google, the Great Disruptor, the Slayer of Late Capitalist Workplace Tedium, etc, etc. But right now, as the startup morphs from a nonprofit-led research lab into a for-profit AI superstar, is a good time

Analysis by Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — In late September, as Israel’s nearly year-long war widened and its credit rating was downgraded yet again, the country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said that, while Israel’s economy was under strain, it was resilient. “Israel’s economy bears the burden of the longest and most expensive war in

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attempt to unravel American democracy to stay in power four years ago is suddenly back at the epicenter of another election — weeks before the ex-president could pull off a stunning White House comeback. Special counsel Jack Smith and former Rep. Liz Cheney have thrust

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — “Make them riot,” a Donald Trump campaign operative said the day after Election Day in 2020, when Trump supporters were converging on the massive vote counting center in Detroit as votes were being counted. “Do it!!!” the operative added. The request for a “riot” was similar to

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — A bombshell legal filing from special counsel Jack Smith unsealed Wednesday contains new evidence in the election subversion case against Donald Trump. The filing emphasizes Trump’s fake electors plot and describes the former president’s attempts to sow confusion in the aftermath of the election. Trump and his “private operatives sought to create

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — October surprises are coming at a dizzying pace. But the question is whether grave crises at home and abroad can break a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in an election that’s already been marked by huge turmoil. The White House is grappling with three

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — With barely a month to go before the US presidential election, a trifecta of economic shocks is threatening to sap Vice President Kamala Harris’ momentum on voters’ No. 1 issue: a port strike, a hurricane and an escalation of fighting in the Middle East. None of

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — October surprises are coming at a dizzying pace. But the question is whether grave crises at home and abroad can break a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in an election that’s already been marked by huge turmoil. The White House is grappling with three challenges

Analysis by Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — In the days after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, fears ran high of a regional war. The conflict would not be contained in Gaza, the thinking went –  Hezbollah would attack Israel from the north, the Houthis from Yemen, and Iranian proxies from Iraq. Israel would be

CNN Analysis by Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — In the days after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, fears ran high of a regional war. The conflict would not be contained in Gaza, the thinking went –  Hezbollah would attack Israel from the north, the Houthis from Yemen, and Iranian proxies from Iraq. Israel would

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio was a civil and policy-oriented affair, and it included some important developments. Both men admitted they had been wrong on past comments. On many things they agreed, perhaps drawing a roadmap

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — All signs suggest that the partisan divide over changing gender roles in society could widen even further in the 2024 election, adding a new source of uncertainty to a contest already on a knife’s edge. Donald Trump’s recent declaration to female voters that “I will be your protector”

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — The word “limited” is going to have to do a lot of work in the weeks ahead. Israel has described its initial ground incursion into southern Lebanon as such, although its key ally, the Biden administration, has already suggested that what may initially begin as small in

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — AI hasn’t quite delivered the job-killing, cancer-curing utopia that the technology’s evangelists are peddling. So far, artificial intelligence has proven more capable of generating stock market enthusiasm than, like, tangibly great things for humanity. Unless you count Shrimp Jesus. But that’s all going to change, the

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s expected ground incursion into Lebanon will drive home a new strategic reality of a year of war — the once-mighty US is powerless to rein in its ally or to influence other major belligerents in a fast-worsening regional crisis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Monday launched

Analysis by Mick Krever, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — On October 7, Israeli Prime Minister’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s self-styled image as “Mister Security” seemed irrevocably shattered by the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The Jewish homeland and its leader had failed to protect the people. How could he possibly survive? The polls told

Analysis by Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For much of the past year since China reopened to the world following the Covid-19 pandemic, a pall has hung over large swathes of the country as its economy struggles to regain momentum. The country’s bright young minds are having a hard time landing a job;

CNN Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead after Israel announced he was killed in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday. His death marks a major moment in recent Middle East history, but the long-term consequences are uncertain. It raises a key question: Do “decapitation strikes” killing the leaders of terrorist groups cripple them? The