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Analysis by Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — New constraints on US investments in advanced technology in China will exacerbate a slump in deals between the world’s top two economies and deliver a “major blow” to Chinese startups, analysts and investors told CNN Thursday. The Biden administration announced Wednesday it would restrict investments by

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — For the past two years, economists have been worrying about the risks of high inflation rates. But far less attention has been given to inflation’s sibling: stagflation. Stagflation is the combination of high inflation and a slowing economy. Historically, low rates of unemployment compensate for some of the

Opinion by Kelli Rhee (CNN) — Back in June, mere hours after the Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s first attempt at broad-based student debt relief, the White House kicked off a renewed push. The president announced a new effort to cancel student debt, this time under a different legal authority than the “national emergency” one used previously. The latest attempt, which requires a

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — It’s the end of an era. The disruptive streaming model birthed by Netflix that dangled all-you-can-eat menus of films, shows, and endless entertainment without pesky advertisements for extraordinarily low prices came to an official close on Wednesday. Disney boss Bob Iger announced during the company’s quarterly earnings report

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s already daunting legal predicament gets grimmer by the day as new details emerge of the depths to which he was prepared to stoop to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election. It’s rare for any criminal defendant to face the kind of ever-widening stack of indictments,

Opinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — The result in Ohio’s vote on a change to its referendum law underscored a political reality that Republicans are still coming to grips with. Pro-life politicians can, and do, rack up resounding victories, even after signing major restrictions on abortion into law. But when the topic of abortion itself is on the ballot —

Opinion by Nicole Hemmer (CNN) — For a moment, it looked like right-wing women were breaking ranks. Brett Cooper, a commentator for The Daily Wire, took aim at the site’s founder, Ben Shapiro, for his comments bashing the new Barbie movie. “I have some terrible news specifically for Ben Shapiro,” she said, after watching the

Opinion by Sara Stewart (CNN) — We are officially in a Bad Audience Summer. The simultaneous arrival of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in movie theaters has spawned a slew of hand-wringing articles about a drastic decline in people’s behavior in cinemas. More disturbingly, a number of touring musicians have had objects thrown at them onstage, in some cases causing injury, and in all cases just

Opinion by Peter Bergen and Laura Tillman (CNN) — In May 2018, then-President Donald Trump canceled the agreement with Iran to restrain its nuclear weapons program, saying “the Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.” In fact, the Iran deal was substantially reining in the

Opinion by Mary Ziegler (CNN) — Issue 1 was a trial balloon for the anti-abortion movement, not just in Ohio, but nationwide. If Republicans couldn’t win on abortion, the theory went, they could change the rules to require Democrats to win supermajority support to change state constitutions — a tall order in a country as polarized as this

Analysis by Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — Moody’s on Monday evening downgraded 10 US banks and put the credit ratings of six others on review, an indication that the agency could also eventually downgrade those institutions. Some investors say that while the Moody’s downgrade isn’t groundbreaking, it’s a reminder that the economy, and markets, still

Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph (CNN) — Charles Ogletree, one of America’s most significant legal scholars, defense attorneys and social justice litigators of the post-civil rights era, recently passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. I first met “Tree,” as friends called him, in Boston during the early aughts. I knew of him from the Anita Hill

Opinion by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Tina Smith (CNN) — In the early weeks of the pandemic, as a surging virus shuttered child care centers across the country, the two of us got together and outlined a vision for $50 billion in emergency funding to keep centers afloat and preserve a vital safety net

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — When Bob Iger returned to the helm of Disney nine months ago, after a brief retirement, the company and its shareholders seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief. Finally, “Dad” is back to get everything in order. He signed on for a two-year contract —

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — One of Ukraine’s greatest tragedies as it pursues a critical offensive that has, so far, failed to meet its own and Western expectations is that it cannot, by itself, decide its destiny. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is dependent on a massive pipeline of US and western armaments.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — One of Ukraine’s greatest tragedies as it pursues a critical offensive that has, so far, failed to meet its own and Western expectations is that it cannot, by itself, decide its destiny. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is dependent on a massive pipeline of US and western armaments. And

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Will former President Donald Trump accept a plea deal, potentially sparing himself prison and sparing us all a repeat of his presidency? That’s the question being posed by New York University professor Scott Galloway in a now-viral email newsletter. Trump, Galloway argues, can certainly do the math on his prospects: Trump is

Opinion by Neil J. Young (CNN) — Editor’s note: Neil J. Young is a historian, writer and podcaster. He is the author of “We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics” and the forthcoming “Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.” The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. Parents