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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

Opinion by Alice Randall (CNN) — Over a long career in music, I’ve known the profound alienation one feels as an unacknowledged member of the country music family. I first experienced it when I showed up in Nashville years ago as a 23-year-old country music songwriter, one of very few Black people working in the

Opinion by Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Last fall, after boys at a high school near my home in New Jersey used artificial intelligence to create nude deepfakes of their female classmates, some local parents viewed the episode as a “youthful transgression,” according to The Wall Street Journal. The description is delusional and dangerous, as the problem has

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It only took a day – and a stunning court ruling reviving a Civil War-era abortion ban in a vital swing state – to disprove Donald Trump’s claim that he had taken the issue of abortion “largely out of play” for the 2024 election. The Arizona Supreme

Opinion by Jason Greenblatt (CNN) — The Biden administration may not have meant to play into Hamas’s hands when it shifted its harsh rhetoric toward Israel last week – but it did. In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in the aftermath of Israel’s deadly strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy, President Joe Biden

Opinion by more than 35 artists, activists, scholars and others (CNN) — Together we call upon Congress to do the right thing. Ukrainians are fighting for their existence. On territory that Russia occupies, it tortures Ukrainian citizens, kidnaps Ukrainian children and murders Ukrainian leaders. On territory Russia can reach with its weapons, it strikes civilians

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. The biggest banks in the world have pledged to

Analysis by David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing has achieved the unthinkable this week: It managed to fall even deeper into crisis. Adding to an already miserable start to 2024, Boeing stood accused Tuesday of routinely ignoring a whistleblower’s complaints about the allegedly critically flawed manufacturing process for its 787 Dreamliner planes. The

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Gen Z is coming into the workforce and — in one of the grand traditions of what Millennials cringe-ily called “adulting” — they’re complaining about how much easier older generations had it. Before all the Boomers and Slackers throw their tablets across the room, let me

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It only took a day – and a stunning court ruling reviving a Civil War-era abortion ban in a vital swing state – to disprove Donald Trump’s claim that he had taken the issue of abortion “largely out of play” for the 2024 election. The Arizona Supreme Court’s

Opinion by Larry Hogan (CNN) — America may be politically divided at historic levels, but there is no red or blue economy. As Congress comes back into session for the first time since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, leaders of both parties must recognize this truth. The fallout from this tragedy is not just

Opinion by Rizwan Virk (CNN) — In the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” audiences found themselves staring at one of the first modern depictions of an extremely polite but uncooperative artificial intelligence system, a character named HAL. Given a direct request by the sole surviving astronaut to let him back in the spaceship, HAL responds:

Opinion by Mary Mueller and Sarah Rogerson (CNN) — As sisters, we have shared many things in life, but one thing we never expected to share was the trauma of living through a mass shooting that seriously injured our son and nephew. On November 30, 2021, a teenaged schoolmate armed with a Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun

Opinion By Joshua A. Douglas (CNN) — It’s often toward the top of the progressive wish list of voting rights reforms: Make Election Day a federal holiday. A recent study from Pew Research Center revealed that an overwhelming number of Americans from both parties support the move — with 68% of Republicans and 78% of Democrats in agreement. In February,

Opinion by W. James Antle III (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump clarified his position on abortion in the first presidential election since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which owed in part to the three justices he appointed to the Supreme Court. Trump’s position — mainly leaving the issue to the states to “determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both,”

CNN Opinion by W. James Antle III (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump clarified his position on abortion in the first presidential election since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which owed in part to the three justices he appointed to the Supreme Court. Trump’s position — mainly leaving the issue to the states to “determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It’s jarring to think that Arizonans today – thanks to a new state Supreme Court ruling – will soon be living under an abortion law from when Arizona was a frontier territory and that predates the light bulb and antibiotics. But this is actually exactly the type

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — A single trillion-dollar company controls Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. That concentration of digital ownership can create real-world harm, as a recent censorship dispute with Meta lays bare. Last week, Meta apologized after blocking links by a nonprofit newspaper and an independent journalist who published a

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. The number of publicly traded companies in the United

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is close to running out of time in his last-ditch bid to stave off the historic stigma of being the first former president to go on criminal trial next week. The presumptive Republican nominee suffered yet another courtroom defeat on Monday in an attempt to