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Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Everyone makes mistakes, am I right? But when you are a star who’s had a blunder, the ramifications can be so much bigger than they are for us civilians. To be fair, most of us don’t have publicists to help us craft our messages, or fans who

Opinion by Lanhee J. Chen (CNN) — While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was visiting Washington this week, nearly 30 Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the Biden administration, opposing the request for an additional $24 billion in spending to support the war effort in Ukraine. The premise of the letter is that the administration’s request comes

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted Friday for the second time in 10 years on bribery and corruption charges. In this new case, federal authorities allege he and his wife accepted a luxury Mercedes, envelopes full of cash and multiple bars of gold in exchange for influence

Analysis by Dr. Neha Chaudhary, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dr. Neha Chaudhary is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and chief medical officer at Modern Health.  When I found out I was pregnant a couple years ago, I was overwhelmed with excitement — but it wasn’t

Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s support for Ukraine faced an unexpected curveball this week as Poland – hitherto Kyiv’s staunchest ally on the continent – seemed to declare it would stop sending arms to its neighbor. The move came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Warsaw for continuing to ban Ukrainian grain

Opinion by Max Burns (CNN) — For the second time in as many days, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy watched Thursday as his best effort to prevent a government shutdown collapsed in humiliating fashion, the result of entrenched opposition from extremists within his own party. As Congress tries to get a stop-gap funding measure through both

Opinion by Jonathan Greenblatt (CNN) — At the start of every school year, I hear concerns from friends, family and coworkers about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses — and as a parent sending my Jewish children to college, I feel those worries myself. The threat of antisemitism has been growing across American society, and colleges are

Analysis by Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Paris (CNN) — King Charles and Queen Camilla have just wrapped up their long-awaited state visit to France, spending their final day in the southwest of the country. While in Bordeaux, a region with deep historical ties to Britain, the couple toured a Royal Navy frigate, met

Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The Ukrainian missile attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is perhaps the most dramatic example yet of the confidence with which Ukraine is going after Russian facilities in occupied Crimea – and the vulnerability of critically important infrastructure on the peninsula. In short order,

Analysis by Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Russia’s decision to ban diesel exports to most countries could not have come at a worse time for Europe. The European Union halted Russian seaborne imports of the fuel earlier this year as part of sanctions imposed on Moscow over Russia’s full-scale invastion of Ukraine. But the

Analysis by Stephanie Fillion United Nations (CNN) — When Jacinda Ardern brought her baby Neve to the United Nations for the 2018 General Assembly, then-New Zealand Prime Minister became an emblematic figure of modern women in politics. Her initiative was not only a photo opportunity, she also walked the walk: A few years later, her

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — The Reagan years, with their anti-civil rights backlash and rising homophobia, were a famously repressive moment. And in response, they called forth some famously righteous music: The Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks F–k Off”; The Dicks’ “The Dicks Hate the Police,” Public Enemy’s “Don’t Believe the Hype,” N.W.A’s “F–k tha Police.” One 1980s

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable. He talked bluntly about racism and football in a way that few Black coaches at an elite level are willing to do. “We’re doing things that have never been done,

Analysis by Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — Central bank officials around the world relayed a somewhat unified message this week to the global economy: Inflation is coming down, but the battle is far from won. Some of the world’s most prominent monetary policy leaders announced their latest decisions in their respective fights against persistent inflation.

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Rupert Murdoch’s reign over the insidious right-wing media kingdom he forged into existence over a decades-long career is coming to a close. The 92-year-old right-wing media mogul, who announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corporation, will leave behind a stain

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — This is not normal. (Or is it?) What on Earth is happening in China? The country that has been trying to present itself to the world as an appealing alternative to Western-style democracy looks like the stage of a sinister mystery play, with major characters disappearing from view, and government officials acting

Opinion by David Zurawik (CNN) — Few media figures in the last 27 years have had a larger and more profound effect on American political and media life than Rupert Murdoch. Most of it for the worse. Stepping down Thursday from day-to-day control of the Fox and News Corporation boards, to become chairman emeritus of the two companies, the

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Democrats welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Capitol Hill earlier Thursday, while Republicans were far more split. The divide between the two parties is not surprising given the polling data on Zelensky specifically and Russia’s war in Ukraine more broadly. Republicans, it turns out, have become far more

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Washington (CNN) — The blue-and-gold flag draped hero worship of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s last Washington trip, which stirred comparisons to Winston Churchill’s wartime stand against Nazism, was a distant memory on Thursday. Nine months later, Zelensky was back in town and he and his hosts learned some jarring lessons

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Days after President Joe Biden declared unyielding support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, the domestic US political fight is threatening aid funding – and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky encountered less-than-open arms from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. Poland also announced this week it would no