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Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a total mess. The city’s Board of Elections, known for previous errors, managed to make its biggest one to date when it accidentally included about 135,000 test ballots in its initial calculation of the primary results under the city’s new ranked-choice voting

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The counting error in New York’s mayoral primary is the last kind of screwup American democracy needed. Not right now. Not when the whole idea of people choosing their government is on the ropes in so many ways: A proposal for a new national voting standard has been blocked.

Opinion by Thomas Balcerski On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, including for the first time former President Donald Trump. The survey organizers have assembled a broad ideological and demographic spectrum of 142 presidential historians and professional observers of the presidency invited to participate. I was one of them. The results

Opinion by Michael D’Antonio During the 2016 election campaign a new political phenomenon emerged: journalists seemed to take then-candidate Donald Trump literally, but not seriously, while his supporters did the reverse: They took him seriously but not literally. This curiosity was noted by many, including tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel explained that while Trump may

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan outlasted the first three commanders in chief of this century. But this week, Joe Biden is set to become the president who imposes closure on the US’ role in the bloody, intractable conflict. Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks — plotted by al-Qaeda from Afghan

CNN’s Chris Cuomo and former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen discuss former President Trump’s potential future legal issues.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson Imagine going to work knowing that millions of people want you to quit. We’re not talking about a football manager who just led his team to a first-round exit in Euro 2020. Or a public health official like Dr. Anthony Fauci or Chris Whitty assailed by public ire over lockdowns. The

Analysis by Paula Newton In the words of Chief Bobby Cameron, it is time to listen to the “whispers” of past children. The leader of Canada’s Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations evoked a singular image when he spoke with me last week: Indigenous children hauntingly pleading from their graves for Canada to atone for

Opinion by Hanif Kara On Thursday, the partial collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida, left 11 dead and 150 still unaccounted for. While we await answers about what caused this tragedy, we are left asking the question: What could cause a building simply fall down? The answer, usually: exceptional circumstances. In modern times

Opinion by Norman Eisen, E. Danya Perry and John Cuti As long-time criminal law practitioners, we know that the Monday meeting held between New York prosecutors and former President Donald Trump’s attorneys was among the more dramatic that can play out in the behind-the-scenes life of any case. The District Attorney for the County of

Analysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Congress is trying again Tuesday on removing Confederate statues from the US Capitol. The House is expected to vote on a resolution to expel Confederate statues and replace the Capitol’s bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first

Opinion by Jill Filipovic Republicans sure do have a bizarre definition of “patriotism.” Prominent members of the GOP are outraged that hammer thrower Gwen Berry silently turned her body away from facing the American flag while the National Anthem played at the Olympic trials in Oregon Saturday. Berry, who placed third and qualified for the

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN There are more and more mixed messages on masks, even for those vaccinated against Covid-19. The World Health Organization is encouraging even the vaccinated to keep the masks on, particularly indoors, as the Delta variant of Covid-19 ricochets around the world. Compare that with the US Centers for Disease

Opinion by Fortuna Smukler My husband woke me up last Thursday morning at 6 a.m .to let me know that Champlain South had partly collapsed. I grew up, and we both raised our family, just one mile from the condominium until we moved 20 years ago. We saw it being built. It was one of

Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Westminster, the beating heart of British politics, is very worried about how safe the UK government’s most important secrets are. Over the weekend, Matt Hancock, now the country’s former health secretary, was forced to resign after images of him kissing a female adviser were published in a newspaper. It isn’t

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — two pillars of the post-Civil War effort to ensure equality for all Americans — would never have become law. Every Democrat in Congress at

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Former President Donald Trump is facing a wall of accountability and truth as new revelations and investigations expose his abuses of power, delusional lies about the election and business conduct to ever greater scrutiny. Just consider what has taken place over the last several days: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on

Opinion by David A. Andelman Last week, Russian forces spied the British destroyer HMS Defender on routine patrol in the Black Sea. Specifically, a part of the Black Sea that’s very sensitive to Russia: inside the territorial waters of Crimea. That’s what Putin calls Russian territory, and much of the world still thinks belongs to

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Now you tell us. He suspected it was all “bullsh*t” all along, says Bill Barr, the former attorney general, clearly trying to rehabilitate his image for the history books by distancing himself from the false notion of voter fraud pushed by former President Donald Trump. The problem for Barr

Analysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows that his base is all for it. Texas Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of Abbott’s border wall effort: 89% support it and only 8% are opposed,