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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Courts, legislatures, presidential campaigns and everyday Americans are all still grappling with the end of Roe v. Wade two years ago. In the courts The US Supreme Court will hear its second abortion-rights case in as many months Wednesday, when it will consider whether hospitals have an

Opinion by Jonathan A. Greenblatt (CNN) — On Sunday, I went to Columbia University just uptown from my office to see for myself what is happening there. As I approached the gates of the university, I saw a seething protest. Drums and chants rang down Amsterdam Avenue. Crowds on both sides of the fence egged each other

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Today is the first full day of what was my favorite Jewish celebratory holiday as a kid: Passover, which commemorates the Jews escaping bondage in ancient Egypt. This time for celebration helped to remind me of a conversation I had a month ago with my friend Noam in

Opinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday’s opening of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was the juxtaposition between the extraordinary and the humdrum, with the judge and jury going through all the usual motions that I have seen hundreds of times – but doing them with a former

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Markets have had a rough time this month, but

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s hearing Thursday on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim will underline a historic power shift. In a closely divided era when neither party has proven able to maintain control of the White House and Congress for very long, the six GOP-appointed justices on the high

Opinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — Opening statements, followed by a few minutes of testimony from the first witness, concluded Monday in the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Both the prosecution and defense delivered powerful presentations. My takeaway: The prosecution has the upper hand based on the evidence and the law, and Trump knows

Opinion by Clarissa Wei Taipei (CNN) — When my parents were growing up in the 1970s, they did not consider Taiwan an idyllic place to start a family. It was under martial law and the steady drumbeat of threats from China only seemed to be getting louder with each passing year. My dad still remembers

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump opened the New York criminal trial on Monday by laying out their opposing sides of the case. It’s clear that a main point of contention will be what occurred at a pivotal August 2015 meeting between Trump,

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump opened the New York criminal trial on Monday by laying out their opposing sides of the case. It’s clear that a main point of contention will be what occurred at a pivotal August 2015 meeting between Trump,

Analysis by Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Third-party and independent candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are making an unusually strong showing in early polls of this fall’s presidential race – a finding that not only highlights a strain of dissatisfaction with Joe Biden and Donald Trump but also adds further uncertainty to what is shaping

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump opened the New York criminal trial on Monday by laying out their opposing sides of the case. It’s clear that a main point of contention will be what occurred at a pivotal August 2015 meeting between Trump, his

Opinion by Allison Hope (CNN) — Lesbian Visibility Week, celebrated each year at the end of April, was first observed in California in 1990 and is marked around the world and in lesbian living rooms across America — including mine. Having been rendered largely invisible in the past, lesbians today have reason to celebrate our

Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Call it an April slump. Faltering tech stocks, fears

Opinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — I will be joining the line Monday morning to witness opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president. Journalists are to queue up in the long exterior entryway to the 17-story building at 100 Centre St. – its elegant pale yellow granite and limestone Art Deco

Opinion by Tess Taylor (CNN) — On a recent morning, unearthing our postage-stamp front yard garden from a second winter of atmospheric rivers, I saw one monarch butterfly amid our plum blossoms —  a rare sight in a year when monarch populations are at an all-time low. I’d gone out to rake leaves, lay compost and weed the

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was once, and may soon be again, the most powerful man in the world. But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has long chafed

Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Two different rallies in support of Donald Trump posed a dangerous situation, yet produced two vastly different responses from the former president. On Saturday, shortly before his rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, was scheduled to kick off, Trump — by phone from his private jet — told his supporters

Opinion by Joey Jackson, CNN (CNN) — It was a little more than a year ago, on April 3, 2023, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg announced a 34-count criminal indictment against former President Donald J. Trump. Now the trial against Trump is set to begin, with opening statements scheduled to get underway Monday

Opinion by Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) — “We are most deeply asleep at the switch,” wrote Annie Dillard, “when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God.” Dillard’s line — from her short meditative book titled “Holy the Firm,”