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Analysis by Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — An Israeli airstrike reduces a nine-story apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburb to a large mound of rubble. A man covered in dust flails lifelessly in the arms of a rescuer. A corpse in a body bag is whizzed past parked ambulances on the back of

Analysis by Fareed Zakaria, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the clamor of the campaign season, we are missing what should be a landmark event. The United States has managed to bring inflation down without – so far – triggering a recession. This undeniable soft landing is a rare achievement that the conventional wisdom suggests has only

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The current drama should feel so familiar: ► A deadline looms for a must-pass, stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. ► Former President Donald Trump is encouraging Republicans to embrace a shutdown if they can’t get Democrats to agree to add controversial immigration-related language –

Analysis by Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — Next week, an already very public debate over whether Ukraine should be allowed to use long-range Western-supplied missiles on Russian soil will come under an even brighter international spotlight. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet not only US President Joe Biden, who has signaled he is open

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have bet the destiny of the White House on the premise that once voters remember the chaos and divisiveness of Donald Trump’s presidency, he’d suffer an election-defining slump. Wild weeks of outlandish rhetoric by the ex-president have revived memories of the cacophony of his four White

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Does Donald Trump really want his running mate, JD Vance, to have the final debating word this fall? Or does Trump want that opportunity for himself? That’s one of the questions now on the table after Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Trump on Saturday to a second debate hosted by CNN next

Analysis by Richard Roth and Tara John, CNN United Nations (CNN) — It’s time for UNGA 79! Quick explanation: the United Nations General Assembly is an annual world leaders’ summit that has gone on for nearly eight decades since the international body’s founding in San Francisco. It’s a place for long speeches, private country-to-country whisper sessions, and group meetings on everything from regulating

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — A fired-up Vice President Kamala Harris adopted a rapid-response mentality to seize on the key issue of abortion rights this week. Referring to people behind abortion bans as “these hypocrites,” she argued at a hastily arranged campaign event in Atlanta that some US communities now dealing with

Analysis by Ryan Struyk, CNN (CNN) — Almost three decades ago, Richard Hays, a United Methodist minister and the soon-to-be dean of Duke Divinity School, wrote what quickly became the go-to traditionalist Christian argument against same-sex marriage. Now, Hays says he’s changed his mind. In a seismic reversal, one of the most prominent and influential

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The history of DNA-testing startup 23andMe reads like a formula for a screenplay set in turn-of-the-century Silicon Valley: A Yale grad grows tired of hedge fund life and returns to her roots in the Bay Area. Marries the co-founder of Google. Becomes CEO of an ambitious

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump risks being doomed by what he wrought in North Carolina. An already fiercely fought presidential contest in the critical swing state was thrown into greater turmoil Thursday by a stunning CNN investigation revealing a porn-site scandal surrounding Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Lt. Gov. Robinson, whose

Analysis by Tamara Qiblawi Beirut (CNN) — Hezbollah is on the backfoot. The first sign of that was the absence of a public gathering – typically consisting of high-level party officials and supporters – to watch the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah deliver a televised speech on Thursday. The second sign was that Nasrallah’s address

Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — For several weeks after Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, media observers and critics questioned her decision to remain inaccessible to the press. Some Donald Trump allies assailed the vice president as incapable of getting through an interview. Half a dozen interviews later, her

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Jerome Powell, the unflappable Federal Reserve chair, would never march into a press conference, declare victory over inflation and drop the mic while giving a middle finger to his haters. That’s not his style. But in his own way (very demure, very mindful) that is what

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s obsession with election fraud that doesn’t exist in any significant form could drive the country into a government shutdown — and may even put the Republican House majority at risk. In a fresh show of governing futility, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday failed to

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s obsession with election fraud that doesn’t exist in any significant form could drive the country into a government shutdown — and may even put the Republican House majority at risk. In a fresh show of governing futility, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday failed

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Far be it from anyone to identify a defined strategy in the cat memes that have overtaken the American political conversation in a pivotal election year. But it’s worth considering why, rather than move on from insults against “childless cat ladies” and false stories about Haitian migrants

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Far be it from anyone to identify a defined strategy in the cat memes that have overtaken the American political conversation in a pivotal election year. But it’s worth considering why, rather than move on from insults against “childless cat ladies” and false stories about Haitian

Analysis by Ben Wedeman, CNN Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) — For years Hezbollah was seen as the world’s premier non-state actor: the well-equipped, well-trained, well-led, highly disciplined and secretive jewel in the crown of Iran’s allies across the Middle East. In May 2000, the group managed to drive Israel out of southern Lebanon after a grueling

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Haiti clearly holds a place in the heart of Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. He’s been to the country at least 25 times with his wife, he said at a press conference Monday in Springfield. He helped found a school in Haiti that bears the name of