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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large For the briefest of moments, Congress had what every middle schooler dreams of: rising popularity. And then, just like that, it was gone. Back in March, more than one-third of Americans (36%!) had a favorable view of Congress in Gallup polling. Which, by congressional standards, basically made them Zack

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The post-reopening murder wave is about to become a major subject of conversation. Murders have gone up in 2021, and the summer — high season for homicide — is just getting started. This new societal crisis is already turning political: President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced

Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst Democrats are feeling the lure of “law and order.” President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks Wednesday outlining his plan to reduce violent crime. And in New York City, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a retired police officer, is leading in the Democratic primary. One of Adams’

Opinion by James Moore The state of Texas is lawsuit happy. Almost every time the White House or Congress institutes a law that Texas leadership doesn’t like, the state sues Washington, D.C. The suits, which often fail in federal court, are largely a waste of thousands of hours of time by state attorneys general and

Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN When the world thinks “troubled” Britney Spears, the paparazzi captured images of her with a shaved head, attacking a photographer’s vehicle with an umbrella in 2007 probably come to mind. But there was another moment, again captured by a crush of photographers, that is, perhaps, more troubling. The time

Opinion by Lisa Kaltenegger The news that we’ll soon have an unclassified report sent to Congress on “unidentified aerial phenomena” — commonly known as “UFOs” — has sparked widespread interest in the search for life in the universe. Might there be civilizations out there? Could there be technologically advanced extraterrestrials? If so, how can we

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Even as Donald Trump continues to stoke insane conspiracy theories about how he will be “reinstated” as president this summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is actively positioning himself to be the rightful heir to Trumpism in 2024. The latest evidence came earlier this week, when he signed three bills

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Here’s the paragraph you need to read today: “With each passing day away from Washington, former President Donald Trump’s grievances continue unabated. And those complaints appear to be driving away two of the people who were closest to him during his White House tenure: his daughter Ivanka Trump and

Opinion by Sandra Garza In late 2008, while on a popular dating site, I received a message in my inbox from a good-looking, dark-haired man with gorgeous blue eyes saying, “Hi, how are you?” I responded, and before I knew it, we were chatting regularly for weeks. He told me that he used to be

Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Britain was a very different place in 2006. Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the financial crisis that would go on to devastate the global economy had yet to arrive, and a member of parliament named Boris Johnson was eyeing up a run for mayor of London as the Conservative party’s

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN If the expansive voting rights bill suffocated in the Senate on Tuesday was the most critical defense of American democracy in decades, it seems odd that a President who put that very goal at the core of his administration didn’t do more to pass it. The bill was seen by

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor moments after Republicans voted in unison to not open debate on the Democrats’ signature voting rights and election bill, saying saying GOP opposition was “indefensible.”

Opinion by Michael D’Antonio Watch out, Holy Bible! Step aside, Don Quixote! Former President Donald Trump says he’s writing “the book of all books.” Despites his attempts to build hype, obstacles loom. The first is that he’s likely to be the least reliable narrator since Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho.” And that was a work

Opinion by Heather Brandon-Smith and Diana Ohlbaum These days, getting Democrats and Republicans — Congress and the President — to agree on anything meaningful seems like a pipe dream. But now there is a rapidly growing consensus throughout Washington on one important matter: the constitutional responsibility of Congress to decide when — and if —

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Efforts to update the way Americans vote in local elections were met in New York with some grousing, while efforts to streamline the way Americans vote in federal elections were blocked in Washington. Confused New Yorkers are trying an experiment in ranked choice voting as a fraction of the

Opinion by Barbara Arnwine, William J. Barber II, Penda Hair, Jesse Jackson Sr. Tuesday’s party-line vote in the US Senate to kill debate on the For the People Act certified the modern Republican Party as officially anti-voting rights. Because many Republicans do not believe they can win national elections when every eligible American votes, they

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Donald Trump continues to openly discuss the possibility that he will be reinstated as president, dangerously fomenting the false belief among his followers that this wild conspiracy theory is something other than a total and complete fantasy. In an interview with David Brody for Just the News’ “Water Cooler”

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Can anybody fly a plane? Everything is opening at the same time and people are desperate to travel. As concerts resume, theme parks open, families reunite, lovers tie the knot and stir-crazy Americans dream of vacation, airlines that had to hurriedly recommission fleets are struggling to keep up: American Airlines

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat “It’s a fragile time for our democracy,” said US Rep. Eric Swalwell, disclosing earlier this month that the Department of Justice had secretly seized his communications records in 2017, when he was on a congressional committee investigating then-president Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. Rep. Adam Schiff, also on the committee, received the

Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN Lawmakers from the UK’s governing Conservative party are being accused of weaponizing inequalities in the country’s education system to stoke a culture war. The House of Commons education committee published a report on Tuesday entitled: “The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it.”