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Opinion by Akanksha Singh Mumbai (CNN) — India has changed the names of many of its towns and cities over the years. The port city and one-time capital Calcutta became Kolkata in 2001. The name of India’s financial capital Bombay, was changed to Mumbai in 1996. That same year, Madras was renamed Chennai. Over the years, even some roads, railway stations and markets have

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — As the US national debt passes $33 trillion and a government shutdown looms, Wall Street feels defensive. That shutdown could sour sentiment and deal a blow to an economy already dealing with high gas prices, autoworker strikes and elevated inflation — with some saying it could

Opinion by Kottie Christie-Blick (CNN) — Every parent worries about when, and how, to have a conversation with their children about the birds and the bees. Are they old enough? How much detail should I give? Will they understand? What do they know already? The reality is that the information is already out there. It’s

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The Republican Party’s war on itself has turned its inoperative House majority into a “clown show” and a “dysfunction caucus” and is handing wins to the Chinese Communist Party – and that’s just what some of its own members say about it. Days of recriminations between far-right

Analysis by Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — An explosive allegation from Canada that the Indian government may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist activist on Canadian soil has triggered a huge diplomatic row and sent relations between the two plummeting. It all started on Monday, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The Republican Party’s war on itself has turned its inoperative House majority into a “clown show” and a “dysfunction caucus” and is handing wins to the Chinese Communist Party – and that’s just what some of its own members say about it. Days of recriminations between far-right hardliners,

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — On Wednesday evening, at a swanky party in a townhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Michael Wolff will celebrate his forthcoming book about Fox News, titled “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty.” The anticipated 320-page work, which will hit shelves next week, is poised

Opinion by Dan Perry and Gilead Sher (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dan Perry is the former Cairo-based Middle East editor and London-based Europe/Africa editor of The Associated Press and author of two books about Israel. Gilead Sher is the former chief of staff of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and a senior peace negotiator. He

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations Tuesday and urged the world to stand by Ukraine. At times, it felt like he was also imploring the countries to stick with the United Nations. “If we abandon the core principles of the UN charter to appease an aggressor,

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Democratic US Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia is demonstrating what integrity and service look like. In 2018, Wexton flipped a district that had been red for nearly 40 years and sailed into office along with a wave of other Democratic women, in a midterm backlash to the election of former President

Opinion by Theodore Pak, Lara Jirmanus and Andrew Wang (CNN) — As Covid-19 hospitalizations rise across the country, I (Dr. Pak) think back to my first Covid-19 patient. It was the first time I saw Covid in the hospital — and it wasn’t where it was supposed to be. It was April 2020. I was an

Opinion by Paula M. Krebs (CNN) — Friday’s vote by West Virginia University (WVU)’s Board of Governors to approve massive cuts to the university’s offerings came as no surprise. The big surprise, at least to WVU President Gordon Gee, seemed to be the huge negative national attention his proposal garnered. After years of overspending complicated

Opinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s gubernatorial election in 2021 in large part due to education policy. Parents fed up with how public schools handled Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement and increasingly salient LGBT issues were open to conservative critiques of the K-12 education system. Youngkin’s general election opponent, former

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street has a knowledge hole. The last time American finance was operating in a high-inflation, high-interest rate environment, like the current economy, was nearly 40 years ago. That means most current executives, who came up in the era of easy money, are unfamiliar with the

Analysis by Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Five American prisoners were freed by Iran on Monday in a Qatar-mediated deal that also included the transfer of some $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds and the release of five Iranian prisoners in the United States. The carefully choreographed agreement was years in the making and is

CNN Opinion by Sébastien Roblin (CNN) — Having repeatedly snatched victories from the jaws of defeat in 2022, Ukraine’s forces made far slower progress over the summer in a counteroffensive to liberate southern Ukraine from Russia’s grip. By August, officials in Washington had begun leaking scathing complaints about Ukrainian battlefield performance, while Ukraine’s supporters blamed the West’s long delays in delivering heavy equipment for having bought Russia time to fortify

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The Kristen Welker era of “Meet the Press” is off to a bleak start. The high-stakes sit down with disgraced former president Donald Trump was all risk and little reward for Welker as she assumed the esteemed moderator chair of “Meet the Press” for the first time Sunday.

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room With Peter Bergen,” also on Apple and Spotify. Bergen is on the advisory council of

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The military temporarily losing a fighter jet near Charleston, South Carolina, and asking the public to help find it is a plotline in which “Top Gun” (fighter jets) meets “The Hunt for Red October” (country can’t find its weapons system). But the larger story of the F-35

Opinion by David M. Perry (CNN) — A funny thing happened on the way to the online forum: people wouldn’t stop talking about the Roman Empire. Over the past few days, a viral trend has swept through TikTok in which women asked their husbands and boyfriends how often they thought about the Roman Empire. A