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Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him on Threads at www.threads.net/@deanobeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. Matthew Perry — who passed away Saturday at age 54 — was my favorite among

Opinion by Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn (CNN) — A friend sends you a message with a link. It’s a Pornhub URL, paired with the message: “I’m really sorry but I think you need to see this.” You click, and what pops up is your face, looking back at you, depicted in hardcore pornography. You

Opinion by Elbegdorj Tsakhia (CNN) — A few weeks ago, Singapore elected its new president, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in a landslide election. While it’s a largely ceremonial position (it’s the prime minister who’s the head of government), the president does exercise at least one important power that if used could shake up this Asian nation-state’s identity—and send

Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — “Fame lasts perhaps two thousand years,” says a character in “To the Lighthouse,” Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel. “And what are two thousand years?” In the eons of time, a blink of the eye. “The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.” There’s an even shorter

Analysis by Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (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. The Fed’s fight against inflation is about to enter

Opinion by David A. Andelman Riga, Latvia (CNN) — What keeps Latvians, particularly their president, awake at night these days? Perhaps it is a simple confluence of circumstances. Suddenly, a war that still appears a potentially existential threat not far from their doorstep is being supplanted in the larger world’s attention by violence 1,200 miles

Opinion by Sam Fulwood III (CNN) — Editor’s note: Sam Fulwood III is a writer and veteran news correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. In the 1971 film “Shaft,” Richard Roundtree — who died this week at 81 — strutted, cussed and loved his way across

CNN Opinion by Arick Wierson (CNN) — One of the biggest head-scratchers in national politics as of late is the insurgent candidacy of Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips for the Democratic presidential nomination, an idea he had been publicly toying with for several months. Phillips formally joined the race by filing paperwork for “Dean 24, Inc.” with the Federal

Opinion by Arick Wierson (CNN) — One of the biggest head-scratchers in national politics as of late is the insurgent candidacy of Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips for the Democratic presidential nomination, an idea he had been publicly toying with for several months. Phillips formally joined the race by filing paperwork for “Dean 24, Inc.” with the Federal Election

Opinion by Peter Bergen and Laura Tillman (CNN) — After every large-scale mass shooting in the United States — including the one in Maine on Wednesday that left 18 victims dead and 13 others injured — there are the familiar and justified calls to limit or ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons or to pass more “red flag”

Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Would you want to revisit your life and your past in order to share it all, both the good and the bad? I certainly wouldn’t, but I’m not famous nor do I have famous people problems (knock on wood). Being a celebrity is something many people dream

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, is in for on-the-job training as he emerges from relative national obscurity to the top elected Republican in the United States. In a sort of coming out interview, a chummy talk with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday, Johnson laid out

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — If you’d stepped inside a typical Black household not too long ago, you would have seen this: plastic-covered living room furniture, portraits of Jesus and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the walls, and a collection of vinyl records with gospel, Motown hits and maybe a Richard Pryor

Opinion by Doug Jones (CNN) — How would you feel if the House of Representatives, rather than the voters or even the Electoral College, chose the next president? Yes, the same chaotic House of Representatives that barely managed to pick a speaker in January, nearly shut down the government last month, might shut down the

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — How did it come to pass that the world’s top diplomat, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, inadvertently sparked a diplomatic firestorm with his words? At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Guterres called the October 7 massacres in which the terrorist group Hamas killed more than

Opinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone, doesn’t think many of us put in enough work during the pandemic. Speaking on a panel at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia, he claimed that, during the pandemic, remote workers “didn’t work as hard — regardless of what they

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Major League Baseball’s World Series is upon us, and I can’t help thinking how little most of my friends care. You see, when I was a kid, the World Series was a big deal with over 20 million people tuning in every year to watch the average game.

By Jeanne Bonner, Jay Croft and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For the victims of the mass shooting Wednesday night in Lewiston, Maine, it was an ordinary night out. Some were participating in a cornhole tournament while others were enjoying a meal. Then a shooter ended their fun. And now another American community is grieving

Analysis by Krystal Hur, 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. Economic data released this week suggests that the US

Opinion by Jillian Pretzel (CNN) — It was a brisk Halloween morning when my family moved into our home two years ago. “I put our costumes in a specific box so I’ll know exactly where they are tonight,” I told my new next-door neighbor, who’d popped her head over our shared garden wall to introduce