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Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — The streets in Washington, D.C., were festooned with flags of Japan in recent days, as the United States bestowed one of its rarest of honors, a lavish state dinner, on visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a chance to reaffirm and strengthen bonds between two key allies. Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, a parallel gathering of future-focused faux diplomacy

Opinion by Lawrence Levy (CNN) — From the veterans who surged into new “bedroom communities” after World War II to the growing number of immigrants now diversifying and reviving them, suburbia has served as a symbol of renewal. President Joe Biden knows this fresh-start narrative poignantly: The suburbs are not only where he built a soaring career

Opinion By Julian Zelizer, CNN (CNN) — While many Democrats still consider former President Donald Trump to be about pure chaotic improvisation and impulse, they should consider that his campaign team has put together a very clear roadmap as to how they intend to work different institutions to their advantage. A potentially successful multi-prong strategy with electoral, media, legal, legislative and

Opinion by Bill Carter (CNN) — People can get nostalgic about almost anything. I’m nostalgic about good egg creams, which once were in every place with a soda fountain in my native Brooklyn. Also, I’m nostalgic about every street game we played with a Spalding (“Spal-deen”) high bouncer. Until recently, I had not thought about being nostalgic about

Analysis by John Blake, CNN (CNN) — For millions of Americans, it’s a moment they can’t forget. On October 3, 1995, people gathered around TVs in living rooms, bars and workplaces to watch the verdict in the trial of O.J. Simpson, who had been charged with the grisly murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — When it comes to building planes, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is all about streamlining costs. An accountant by training, Calhoun has prioritized fiscal discipline over his four years at the helm, tightening the belt to free up cash flow and put the company on better financial

Analysis by Krystal Hur, 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. Energy stocks are back in vogue. The S&P 500

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will stand Friday with Donald Trump at an appearance that will amplify the former president’s most damaging falsehood: that America’s democratic elections are catastrophically tainted by fraud. The country’s most powerful elected Republican, who is seeking to save his job under threat from Trump-aligned

Opinion By Gene Seymour, CNN (CNN) — So now that he is dead, what is there to do with the perpetually troubling, infuriating American conundrum that was Orenthal James Simpson? My guess is that we’ll do the same thing we’ve been doing for all his public life, right up until Thursday, when his family announced his death,

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — A Republican rift is jeopardizing extension of a cornerstone of the US intelligence gathering by which the government hoovers up massive amounts of internet and cellphone data. The trove of data now in jeopardy has vital importance to the US. According to one assessment, it forms the

Opinion by Michael Conway (CNN) — A New York appellate court on Tuesday refused to delay former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial because he objects to the gag order that’s been imposed on him by the trial judge, Juan Merchan. While the appellate decision on the merits of the gag rule won’t come until later this

Opinion by Holly Thomas (CNN) — Few members of the metropolitan liberal elite would admit the 2001 movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” was their favorite film, but if they picked up a battered copy of the 1996 novel, they’d be hard-pressed to put it down. Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell

Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Poland is debating changes to its near-total abortion ban on Thursday, re-opening one of the country’s thorniest social and political debates in an effort to overhaul some of the strictest laws on reproductive rights in Europe. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s party has proposed changing the law – which

Analysis by Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s rarely a good time for prices to rise a lot. Good luck finding someone who will tell you they enjoy it when their hard-earned dollars can’t stretch as far. But, if you’re President Joe Biden, now is a particularly bad time for inflation to reaccelerate.

Analysis by Krystal Hur, 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. Big banks kick off earnings season Friday. There’s a

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. National Public Radio is being battered by a right-wing storm. A day after NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner penned a scathing piece for Bari Weiss’

KETV, KMTV, KOLN, CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Some top Democrats worry that Americans have forgotten the chaos that raged every day Donald Trump was president, and that voters’ faded recall of the uproar will end up handing him a second term. The presumptive GOP nominee is, however, doing a good job

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Some top Democrats worry that Americans have forgotten the chaos that raged every day Donald Trump was president, and that voters’ faded recall of the uproar will end up handing him a second term. The presumptive GOP nominee is, however, doing a good job of jogging memories as

Opinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — There has been some head-scratching about what former President Donald Trump is up to in his defense in the hush money payment trial against him, for which jury selection begins Monday. He keeps filing motions that seem certain to lose, and then when they do he sometimes refiles them again. Some have suggested

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — The Biden administration has found a way to give student loan borrowers some relief. On Friday, it announced that, through its existing student loan forgiveness programs, it will be canceling another round of student debt for 227,000 borrowers — a total of $7.4 billion. This is despite the best attempts by