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Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — If you’ve found this week’s spectacle in the US House of Representatives gripping and more than a little baffling, imagine how it looked for the people of Ukraine, whose life-and-death struggle to defend their country from Russia’s invasion risks suffering yet another demoralizing and dangerous blow as the result

Opinion by K. Denise Rucker Krepp (CNN) — My family’s military service goes back generations, so when the time came for me to pursue a career, it was only natural for me to continue the tradition. I held the belief that the military I would be joining — long a bastion of male privilege —

Analysis by Mark Thompson, CNN London (CNN) — In 1825, the world’s first passenger train went into service in northern England. It heralded the start of a railway age that transformed the country’s economy by slashing journey times, boosting trade routes and connecting major cities. Fast-forward two centuries, and the United Kingdom has just abandoned

Analysis by Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — The bond market is back in the doldrums after a promising start to 2023. The US economy and labor market have shown few signs of cracking, even after the Federal Reserve’s punishing campaign to tame inflation sent interest rates to their highest level in 22 years. The surprisingly

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Washington and Congress have their own, often impenetrable, languages. So it may be somewhat confusing to assess what it means that the office of the speaker of the House of Representatives is vacant. Why, as a result, has Nancy Pelosi, who hasn’t been speaker since January, been

Analysis by Clare Sebastian, CNN London (CNN) — In April 2022, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said on his Telegram channel: “Our food is our silent weapon. Silent — but formidable.” Not silent any longer. Russia is expected to rake in a historically high wheat harvest for the

Opinion by Mike Chinoy (CNN) — The novel, published in 2018 by a member of the North Korean Writers’ Union named Kim Ryong Yon, is called “Thunderclap.” The heroine is a fictional Korean American CNN correspondent, Byun Sa-hwang. She is preparing to make a reporting trip to North Korea in 2009 and is wrestling with conflicting

Analysis by David Shortell, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — Last month, as the Biden administration scrambled to manage the latest wave of migrants overwhelming the US southern border, top US immigration authorities crossed into Mexico for an emergency meeting. Seated around a Ciudad Juárez conference room, the officials and their Mexican counterparts drafted a 15-point

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy didn’t solve anything. Whoever succeeds the former House speaker will need to defuse the hazardous and self-defeating political forces inside the Republican conference that made McCarthy’s tenure, in a job he’d sought for years, so abbreviated. Two candidates, GOP Majority Leader Steve Scalise

Opinion by Julian Zelizer (CNN) — House Republicans burned down the House yesterday. The chaos caucus achieved its goal Tuesday, bringing Capitol Hill to its knees and ensuring that extremism, dysfunction and divisiveness won the day. Now-former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who almost guaranteed his ouster when he gave away so much of his power in

Opinion by Keith Magee (CNN) — Like many Black men, I grew up with a stern father who saw displays of emotion as a sign of weakness. For a long time after becoming a father myself, if overwhelmed by unhappiness or frustration, I would hide my own tears from my little boy. Eventually, I realized

Opinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Americans were jolted Wednesday by the sound of loud noises from our electronic devices, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted a test of the country’s Wireless Emergency Alerts for cell phones and Emergency Alert System for television and radio at 2:20 pm ET, in coordination with the Federal Communication

Opinion by Thomas Balcerski (CNN) — California Rep. Kevin McCarthy has once again made history, this time for being the first House speaker to be removed from his post. Of course, his earlier entry into the record books — needing an unprecedented 15 rounds of votes to be elected to the chamber’s top job in the first

Opinion by Holly Thomas (CNN) — Fleetwood Mac in concert is one of the best things I’ve seen in real life. I was in my twenties, and I’d crossed every square of the Mac bingo card: I was recently dumped, in a complicated new situationship and attending on the same night as my ex (naturally

Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the US Congress has cast a dark cloud over the already troubled process of Washington’s military and financial aid for Ukraine, as its counteroffensive against Russia grinds on with little change to the frontlines. Without a Speaker, the House is

Opinion by David A. Andelman (CNN) — My wife and I live in a tiny garret apartment in Paris — our French friends call it our “La Bohème retreat” in the fashionable 7th arrondissement, around the corner from the Musée d’Orsay. We are just up the block from the Maison of the Legion of Honor

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — October has a long history of spooking Wall Street, and this week’s market action is serving up a particular dose of terror for traders. Markets fell sharply on Tuesday. The Dow lost 454 points, or 1.3%, notching its biggest decline since March and turning negative for

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Matt Gaetz is a product of America’s broken information environment. Not so long ago, a young Florida congressman with no major legislative achievements to his name would hold little power in Washington. Such a person would certainly not wield enough power to oust the speaker of the House.

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCarthy is House speaker no more. After angering GOP hardliners with a spending bill to keep the government funded last week, McCarthy was voted out of power on Tuesday. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, filed what in the House is known as a “motion to

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCarthy’s big mistake was trying to govern. The now ex-speaker’s historic ouster came only three days after he was forced to use Democratic votes to head off a damaging government shutdown that his own party’s absolutism was about to trigger. This compounded his original sin, earlier