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Analysis By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Cesar Conde has found himself — yet again — on the receiving end of a stinging on-air rebuke from his high-wattage MSNBC stars. For the second time in only a few months, questions about the NBC News Group chairman’s leadership were raised in extraordinary fashion, with the “Morning

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s a popular idea in political discourse known as the horseshoe theory. The idea is that if you map ideologies on a horseshoe-shaped spectrum, the far right and the far left are actually more closely aligned than the centrists on either side. It’s not exactly a

Analysis by Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The social media industry’s tepid response this week to the conspiracy theories floating wildly on their platforms about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was part of a purposeful shift away from actively policing online speech – even in the face of potentially dangerous rhetoric. The

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Once the leader was on his throne, the ritual capitulation could begin. Donald Trump looked on with an ethereal gaze Tuesday as a parade of Republican presidential candidates whose dreams he crushed staged a parade of the vanquished at the Republican National Convention. On another night awash in

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It was a remarkable moment Monday night at the Republican National Convention, surely creating some amount of confusion among longtime Republicans, when Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, delivered a stemwinder of a speech in prime time. He called former President Donald Trump a

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — News organizations are being confronted this week with a thorny challenge. In the wake of former President Donald Trump narrowly surviving a horrific assassination attempt, executives are more cognizant than ever about the fraught political environment in which they are operating. But news outlets also understand that they must

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Financial markets have a way of responding to chaos that often feels icky. Tragedy strikes and traders (or trading algorithms) sniff out a way to make money off of it. On Jan. 6, 2021, with the Capitol in chaos, the Dow closed at a record high.

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has gone from an insurrection to a resurrection. The searing picture of a nation in dystopian decline that defines the ex-president’s politics was largely missing on the first night of the Republican National Convention. In its place was a sense of the divine — a pulsating

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance is the embodiment of the populist, nationalist and blue-collar transformation of the old establishment Republican Party. That’s why ex-President Donald Trump — who never forgets the enthusiasms of his base — picked the Ohio senator as his vice-presidential running mate and effectively named him as a

Opinion by Arwa Damon (CNN) — During past humanitarian missions in Gaza, aid workers like me entered through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, where a sea of human desolation greeted us. An overflow of tents spilled out of schools housing the displaced and blanketed the sidewalks. A handful of vehicles and donkey carts inched

Analysis by Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — On May 7, 1873, Louisiana Gov. William Pitt Kellogg made his way to his carriage following a meeting in New Orleans, when a man named Charles R. Railey confronted him. “I wanted to tell you that you were a cowardly and usurping scoundrel and that if you have

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — A week after she went on National Public Radio to urge the Southern Baptist Convention to officially accept women as pastors, the Rev. Kristen Muse received an unusual letter at her church office. The letter, addressed directly to Muse, was stuffed in a large manila envelope along with three pages

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump will reemerge after an attempted assassination as an even greater mythical hero of his MAGA movement with the Republican National Convention opening Monday after an extraordinary two weeks that have transformed the 2024 campaign. More than 24 hours on, the horror of Saturday’s shooting is only

By Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday evening, President Joe Biden spoke from the Oval Office, calling on Americans to temper their passions. In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Biden reiterated his message that there is no room for violence in our politics and that everyone needs to take a

CNN By MJ Lee, Kayla Tausche, Priscilla Alvarez, Arlette Saenz and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden was bracing for a week of political onslaught. More Democratic lawmakers were expected to publicly call on him to drop out of the 2024 race, a grueling campaign schedule would put his stamina on display and

Opinion by Jeff Schlegelmilch (CNN) — I was driving from my hotel room in Gaziantep, Turkey, to the Hatay region last fall, about eight months after the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that was one of the strongest temblors to hit the country in more than a century. I was expecting to see communities emerging from

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The motivations of the gunman who opened fire at former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday are not known, but the incident comes at a time of political anger and anxiety in a country split down the middle and bursting at the seams. Violence has targeted

Analysis by Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Small and mid-sized businesses are struggling to survive. Many have already gone under water this year. There were 346 companies that filed to either liquidate or re-organize through bankruptcy in the first six months of 2024, the highest half-year level since 2010 when 467 filed, according to

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which opens a dark new chapter in America’s cursed story of political violence, shook a nation already deeply estranged during one of the most tense periods of its modern history. The targeting of a former president at a campaign rally just

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which opens a dark new chapter in America’s cursed story of political violence, shook a nation already deeply estranged during one of the most tense periods of its modern history. The targeting of a former president at a campaign rally just days