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Opinion by Max Burns (CNN) — The Democrats’ winning streak continues. Despite concerns about President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings and inability to pull away from leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the polls, the Democrats claimed another victory in a closely watched off-cycle race. Long Island isn’t normally considered the center of political

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers from both parties last December may have been anticipating former President Donald Trump’s current NATO trash talk when they quietly slipped language limiting a president’s power to pull the US out the alliance into the annual defense policy bill, which passed with bipartisan support. Trump boasted

Opinion by Bill Carter (CNN) — Would he be political? Would he be funny? Would he still have his fastball? Would he still be Jon Stewart, the Jon Stewart whose take on the infuriating foolishness and corruption of American public life and events made “The Daily Show” hilariously compelling viewing for 16 years? Based on Stewart’s return to the

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. The National Football League is an anomaly. While nearly every legacy media company is in peril, facing the cold bitter winds

Opinion by Hussein Ibish (CNN) — The crises wracking the Middle East are simultaneously independent flashpoints and also a relatively integrated regionwide offensive by Iranian-backed armed gangs. It’s sometimes unclear how much control Iran has over these militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen and elsewhere. Although Iran’s influence operates just beneath the earthquakes and

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Netflix recently bet $5 billion on the idea that pro wrestling is due for a renaissance. It’s not hard to see why. Wrestling has all the drama of reality TV, but on steroids. It’s oozing with Millennial nostalgia. And it’s the kind of entertainment in which

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Democrats, when confronted with President Joe Biden’s poor polling numbers, often counter with some form of the following: “Polls are polls, but when people vote, Democrats are doing well.” The idea being that Democrats have done well in major special and off-year elections since the 2022 midterms. The special election

Opinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — A record number of Americans are single this Valentine’s Day. In 2020 and 2021, the marriage rate hit the lowest numbers since the government began tracking it in 1867 — a trend that was well underway before the pandemic. According to research by the Pew Research Center, an unprecedented 25% of 40-year-olds have never been

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s then-defense secretary, James Mattis, said in 2017 that NATO is the “most successful and powerful military alliance in modern history.” Yet, at a campaign rally over the weekend, Trump said he wouldn’t come to the aid of NATO members if Russia attacked them, which was

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Major US indexes notched their fifth consecutive winning week

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. “This application is déjà vu all over again,” the former president’s lawyers write, noting that special counsel Jack Smith had tried and failed to get the nine justices to

CNN Opinion by Norm Eisen, Richard Painter and Joshua Kolb (CNN) — Editor’s note: Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats during the first Trump impeachment, is a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Richard Painter was chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — While the 2024 presidential race seems set in stone as a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, it’s also true that things happen. Back in November 1872, for instance, the newspaper publisher and Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley died after

Opinion by Norm Eisen, Richard Painter and Joshua Kolb (CNN) — Editor’s note: Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats during the first Trump impeachment, is a senior fellow at Brookings and a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Richard Painter was chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush from

Opinion by Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi (CNN) — The nation’s economy is doing remarkably well. Inflation is coming down, unemployment remains low and growth is robust. One glaring exception, however, is housing. According to the National Association of Realtors, it is more difficult for first-time buyers to purchase a home than at any time in two generations, short-circuiting the path

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN London (CNN) — Remarks by Donald Trump normally reverberate in an echo chamber of his own creation, a sort of vacuum that often strips them of any consequence globally. It is white noise, one might think – rhetoric designed to project strength and the rejection of the status-quo, rather

Analysis by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Reactions to Jon Stewart returning to “The Daily Show” after more than eight years – hosting one day a week and overseeing the rest – were decidedly mixed. While some embraced the news with enthusiasm, others, including writers in Time and the Huffington Post, saw it as a

Opinion by Amy Bass (CNN) — Before the Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers, a game that ended with a stunning pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes to receiver Mecole “I caught that pass and I blacked out” Hardman in the last seconds, only one other Super Bowl had ever gone into

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are each offering a stark glimpse at the political liabilities that have many Americans wishing they had other options in 2024. Biden, 81, is angrily refuting questions about his age and memory, struggling to lay to rest anxiety among

Opinion by Joan Lester (CNN) — Editor’s note: Joan Lester, PhD, a PEN-Josephine Miles award winner for her memoir “Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White,” is at work on a novel. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion at CNN “Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be,