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Opinion by Ilene Prusher (CNN) — We arrive at Erez Checkpoint. Israeli soldiers thumb through our passports, examine every item in our bags, then wave us through. After a long walk through a barricaded no-man’s land, Palestinian officers register our names and passport numbers, then press us for a list of people we’re planning to

Opinion by Kirsi Goldynia, CNN (CNN) — The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often summed up by one simple phrase: “Do no harm.” It may seem unthinkable, then, for a doctor, guided by this oath,

Analysis by Alicia Wallace and Hanna Ziady, CNN Minneapolis/London (CNN) — Not all pandemic recoveries are created equal. The world’s richest economies have taken diverging paths in recuperating from the devastating effects of Covid-19. At a time when multiple forces and crises — wars, geopolitical tensions, the pandemic’s lingering aftershocks, high inflation and steep borrowing

Opinion by Todd Graham (CNN) — I’ve watched more than 8,000 debates. Admittedly, my life is not terribly exciting. But after Wednesday night’s fourth Republican presidential debate at the University of Alabama, I was rollin’ like the tide. If you were lucky enough to watch, you were treated to the finest speech ever given in

Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — This is the moment Russian President Vladimir Putin has been waiting for: when he doesn’t really need to do much, and can call it a win. The static frontlines in Ukraine are slowly hardening as the snow deepens. In Kyiv, there is a palpable sense of once-insurmountable morale ebbing slightly. There is open

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s been much handwringing over the scourge of shoplifting in America since 2020. To hear some retailers and politicians tell it, retail crime is out of control across the country. The trouble with that story is, it’s not accurate. To be clear, theft is happening, as it always

Opinion by Gene Seymour (CNN) — Norman Lear, who died Tuesday at 101 years young, leaves behind a rich and complicated legacy. On the one hand, he was the right person for the right time. As the 1960s morphed into the 1970s and social change transpired at a pace too fast for some, maybe most

Analysis by Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — This year’s stock rally is back on course, but not everyone is on board. The S&P 500 index in November notched its best monthly performance this year, snapping a three-month streak of steep losses as Wall Street became optimistic that the Federal Reserve is done raising

Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The American press is facing, arguably, the gravest potential threat to its freedom in a generation. The four-time indicted, twice-impeached disgraced former president, Donald Trump, who admitted Tuesday that he will govern as a “dictator” on “day one” should he win office again, is overtly vowing to weaponize

Analysis by Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Moody’s surprise downgrade of China’s credit outlook this week has reinforced concerns that the crisis in the country’s real estate market is spilling over into the wider economy. While the risk of contagion — particularly via losses at so-called shadow banks — is growing, analysts say

Opinion by CNN contributors (CNN) — CNN Opinion asked political contributors to weigh in on the third Republican presidential debate of the 2024 race. The views expressed in these commentaries are their own. Errol Louis: GOP candidates are ignoring the elephant in the room The wild, final Republican presidential debate of 2023, filled with vicious,

Analysis by Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Chinese warships have docked for the first time at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which is undergoing a Chinese-funded upgrade that has drawn concerns from the United States over its potential role in expanding China’s overseas military footprint. Cambodia’s Defense Minister Tea Seiha visited the Chinese People’s Liberation Army

Analysis by Diksha Madhok, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Over half a century ago, India’s then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi talked about the staggering challenge for developing nations: to industrialize without harming the environment. “On the one hand the rich look askance at our continuing poverty — on the other, they warn us against their

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. It’s already been a heck of a week for

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It should not be hard to categorically condemn Hamas terrorists’ depraved use of rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women and girls. And the idea that Israel could think that a ratio of two civilians killed for every Hamas fighter in Gaza would be a

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It should not be hard to categorically condemn Hamas terrorists’ depraved use of rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women and girls. And the idea that Israel could think that a ratio of two civilians killed for every Hamas fighter in Gaza would be a “tremendously

Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — The way drug prices are set in the United States is … kind of a mystery. You might assume that when you go to the pharmacy and hand over money for your meds, the price is what the drug itself costs, minus what your insurance covers,

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden lives in a house that has seen an inordinate and unbelievable amount of personal grief and tragedy, but he may be the first president to openly talk to Americans about working through loss. When Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie died in the White House of typhoid

Opinion by Frida Ghitis (CNN) — Editor’s note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. US military

Opinion by Jill Filipovic (CNN) — Arguments are raging over whether Israel is adequately protecting civilian life in a war that has killed more than 15,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health and whether the world has adequately responded to a brutal terrorist attack in which Hamas, according to Israeli officials, killed more than 1,400 Israelis, raped women