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Opinion by Jalal Baig (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dr. Jalal Baig is a physician and writer based in Chicago whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, NBC News, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and other publications. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. The recent revelation of the cancer diagnosis of Catherine, Princess of

Opinion by Paul Hockenos Berlin (CNN) — For old-school connoisseurs of the automobile — usually men — driving means operating a beloved vehicle by touch, with three pedals underfoot and a shift stick at hand. In Europe, this clientele is responsible for a good deal of the moaning about manual transmission’s demise. And perhaps nowhere

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It’s not only about Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas. As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November’s election. Political drama from Washington

Opinion by Paul Begala (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign can’t win, but it could swing the presidency to former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s selection Tuesday of Nicole Shanahan, a Democratic donor from Northern California, as his running mate is the final point of proof that the RFK campaign is a heat-seeking missile

Opinion by Keith O’Brien (CNN) — We’re a week into baseball’s gambling crisis surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, his close friend and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, an alleged illegal bookmaker in southern California and at least $4.5 million in wire transfers from Ohtani’s bank accounts. And already, Ohtani, Mizuhara, their representatives, and Major League

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The beauty of being a CEO in America is that when your company does well, you get extra money as a reward. And when your company does badly, you get extra money to encourage you to stick around and lead it through the storm. What a

Opinion by David Zurawik (CNN) — As wrongheaded as it was on so many levels, NBC’s decision to hire former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor might actually have done the nation a favor. The highly controversial move has helped drive a crucial conversation about the role of media in our

Opinion by Mary Ziegler (CNN) — It isn’t looking good for the plaintiffs challenging access to mifepristone, a drug used in the majority of US abortions, at the Supreme Court. With very few exceptions during Tuesday’s oral argument in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, the conservative justices on the high court seemed to think that the plaintiffs didn’t have

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The newly public company trading on the Nasdaq with the ticker “DJT” has one dominant shareholder: Donald John Trump, the cash-strapped former president of the United States. That a fledgling, unprofitable social media platform can make the former president billions of dollars on paper is a marvel

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is so done with former President Donald Trump that she may leave the Republican Party. Good for her for having a backbone. Other principled Republicans should follow suit, instead of either getting in line behind him or slinking away in shame. Murkowski told CNN that she “absolutely” would not

Opinion by Mark Osler (CNN) — On February 8, a bit of testimony at a Wisconsin legislative committee hearing finished up in about a minute. In that moment though, something was eloquently said that should chill the Biden campaign to the bone. The speaker, Eric Alexander, a formerly incarcerated Black man, spoke on behalf of the Campaign

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — A Supreme Court decision related to the election could determine the presidential victor this November, but it has nothing to do with former President Donald Trump. A new study from the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice has found that the racial turnout gap — the difference in the turnout rate between White and non-White voters

CNN Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Cesar Conde has a decision to make — and it’s not an especially difficult one. The NBCUniversal News Group chair is facing a torrent of backlash from his own staff after greenlighting the hire of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — In 60 surreal New York minutes, Donald Trump staved off a personal and financial disaster but moved perilously closer to historic ignominy. It didn’t start out too bad for the ex-president on Monday. He won a legal triumph when an appeals court more than halved the value of

Analysis by Nathan Hodge, CNN (CNN) — The headlines from Russia over recent weeks have been bleak: The death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny; a rigged election; and a ruthless insistence by President Vladimir Putin in pressing ahead with his war on Ukraine. Now comes another shock to the system, with the appalling murder of

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — There was an interesting and telling exchange recently between Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican, and CNN’s Manu Raju. In the hallway exchange, Murkowski expressed frustration that former President Donald Trump is her party’s presidential nominee. “I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that

Analysis by Allison Morrow and David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Starting Tuesday, there’s a new company on the Nasdaq: Trump Media & Technology Group, which will trade under the stock ticker DJT. DJT, of course, stands for Donald John Trump, underscoring the company’s raison d’etre — giving a megaphone (and a serious cash infusion)

Opinion by W. James Antle III (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, facing a deadline to post a $464 million bond no one would give him, caught a break from a state appeals court Monday that cut the bond demand in his civil fraud case to $175 million due within the next 10 days. The

Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a firebrand Republican and one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal allies in the House, filed a motion last week to remove GOP Speaker Mike Johnson. Greene, who loves media attention almost as much as Trump does, told a gaggle of reporters on Friday that in cooperating with

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Last week was the kind that investors dream about. Markets vaulted higher after the Federal Reserve policy meeting concluded on Wednesday — the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with two back-to-back record highs and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite notched three consecutive highs before