"The bottom line is that the Grammys need diverse creators and audiences more than diverse creators and audiences need the Grammys," writes .
cnn.com/2021/03/15/opi
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"We cannot allow another generation of women and children to grow up knowing their government and those acting in its name see us as less than human" -- explains why #Kavanaugh and #Trump cannot be the face of America cnn.it/2DKtxuz
"The real news media needs to start covering Fox News for what it is -- a propaganda arm of the far right that creates rather than covers the news," writes . cnn.com/2020/12/18/opi
"As a 24-year-old Nigerian, I am part of one of the largest youth populations in the world," writes on why "politicians must understand that a new generation of active citizens has emerged."
edition.cnn.com/2023/03/14/opi
'She-Ra' is "hands down the best queer representation on television -- providing satisfying content through which kids can see people like us not just normalized but celebrated," writes Lindsey Mantoan.
.: The responsible way to talk about K-Pop is not to fetishize or condescend to it, but to acknowledge that Korean pop music shares the positive and negative traits common to every creative industry around the world. cnn.com/2019/11/27/opi
"We face a seemingly never-ending onslaught of examples that, in the midst of that fight, women are perceived as rude, angry, manipulative, or petty" - puts Taylor Swift's situation in context cnn.it/2RSxq4f
. writes, "Amid so much economic suffering and despair... it is imperative that Democrats pass a bold and aggressive economic agenda within the first 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency." cnn.com/2021/01/19/opi
"By repeatedly chipping away at Oz’s legitimacy as a Pennsylvania resident, Fetterman has successfully shaped and controlled the narrative... It’s an inspired approach, and I really hope other Democrats are taking notes," writes
cnn.com/2022/07/29/opi
. writes, "The Trump-Fox News-OANN-Bannon-Limbaugh-QAnon circle of death is designed to do nothing less than confuse, dispirit and depress individual American voters." cnn.com/2020/08/14/opi
This film "has achieved a historic victory for artistic integrity” - and is groundbreaking for other reasons as well, writes of #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague
.: "Universal basic income -- a guaranteed, unconditional recurring payment for every American -- is our future, and one that the Democratic Party should embrace and champion." cnn.it/3kGx6DP
"Make no mistake: The people who planned and participated in this atrocity will get a knock on their doors from the FBI soon enough," writes cnn.com/2021/01/13/opi
Michael Avenatti may have had a point when he rejected Michelle Obama’s famous words: “When they go low, we go high,” writes cnn.com/2018/08/11/opi
"I was wrong. I think the teams were wrong for not signing him. Watching what's going on in Minnesota, I understand how badly wrong we were," writes cnn.com/2020/05/29/opi
The GSA administrator "has single-handedly created chaos, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness, all while steadfastly refusing to respond to the American people, who, after all, have spoken through the ballot box." -
cnn.com/2020/11/17/opi
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's lashing out NPR's Mary Louise Kelly is part of a pattern and will prevent him from successfully promoting freedom of the press abroad, writes. cnn.com/2020/01/26/opi
"This is a time for steely-eyed public servants who play no games and demand results. It's time for Sen. Kamala Harris to join Joe Biden's ticket and, God willing, help him actualize the next phase of this movement from the White House," writes Ben Crump
cnn.com/2020/08/01/opi
.: Someday soon I hope to have children. I want to look back and tell them that we beat the odds on climate change and built a healthier and more prosperous future before all was lost cnn.com/2019/09/04/opi
. writes: "By repeating false and misleading statements about the potential for voter fraud and post-election violence... William Barr has stepped out of his role as the nation's chief law enforcement officer and marred the 2020 election." cnn.com/2020/09/17/opi
"An informed public strengthens the nation. The public has a right to know what its government is doing, and the government has a duty to explain what it is doing," write 13 former White House press secretaries, foreign service and military officials. cnn.it/35JeslI
"We learned the ugly truth that the United States is the only industrialized nation without a national paid family leave policy to help people balance care for older loved ones while working," write and
cnn.com/2021/02/13/opi
"There is no chance that Trump doesn't know what he is doing. While he likes to play the implausible ignorance card on issues like QAnon, it's impossible that Trump doesn't know that he's helped Russia," writes CNN national security analyst . cnn.com/2020/10/16/opi
. writes that he believes "Trump poses a greater risk to the integrity of the US election than America's foreign rivals do" -- and he shares one story to illustrate why. cnn.com/2020/09/09/opi
'If every major country on earth can guarantee health care to all and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the US cannot do the same.' cnn.it/2OD0SZi
"Should I feel embarrassed about being a fangirl? Should I think of them as a guilty pleasure? The answer to both questions is absolutely not” - says listening to #BTS_Butter over and over is a reminder of how #BTS became her 2021 lifeline cnn.it/3f7sQMM
. writes, "What happens in Congress in the next few months will determine the future of our country -- and our planet." cnn.com/2021/05/27/opi
"I know that these men were undeserving of pardons because I was a member of The FBI Evidence Response Team that traveled to Iraq and investigated the site of these killings," writes cnn.com/2020/12/24/opi
"Censure, although almost unprecedented against a President, is the only and best remedy for holding him to account and putting his wrongdoing on the record forever," write and
cnn.com/2020/02/03/opi
'There is a higher, more important value at stake here than loyalty to your boss: loyalty to your country.'
cnn.com/2020/08/27/opi
. and : "...we are urgently calling for a simple, common-sense, practical and inexpensive way to protect Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: Masks for All."
cnn.com/2020/07/17/opi
Everyone should be tuned in to what is happening in the Georgia gubernatorial race, writes . "It would be a stain on America's democracy to allow Jim-Crow style election-rigging to cost a qualified candidate a fair shot." cnn.it/2PmcB3c
"So here's my challenge to you: Don't wait for New Year's Resolutions. Don't wait for your own heart surgery or emergency. Start right now. And ask a friend to join you" - shares his own fight back to fitness cnn.it/2QOB8O0
"Any Republican leader who stays silent in the face of Greene’s continued bigotry must be viewed as complicit." -
cnn.com/2021/05/23/opi
#greenshirtguy writes, "If you had been there, wouldn't you laugh, too? Sitting inches away from people making fools of themselves, disrupting a public forum to spew hate and accomplish nothing, how else could you respond?" cnn.it/33lQkWs
"Surely this lawless commutation of Stone’s sentence is a smoking gun equivalent to the Watergate tapes.” - Via and
cnn.com/2020/07/13/opi
"The fact that both the valet and Miller likely had sustained contact with numerous other staffers raises the real risk that personnel critical to undertaking key national security work could be sidelined and unable to do their jobs," writes cnn.it/2YOiN7C
"Here’s another unpleasant truth that the series makes plain – one that will be hard for some to stomach: The British royal family seems unlikely to survive as an institution in its current form," writes @IAmSophiaNelson
cnn.com/2022/12/17/opi
"The dishonesty from this President and his press secretaries -- all four of them -- has us where we are today. Truth now comes in two varieties: Republican and Democratic," writes
cnn.com/2020/11/14/opi
San Francisco police raided the home of journalist Bryan Carmody in an attempt to uncover the identity of his confidential source. The raid was a stunning intrusion on press freedom, similar to what we see in autocratic regimes, writes . cnn.it/2WjUlKB
.: "She put herself and her reputation, personally and professionally, by turning herself into the nation's body camera and bringing transparency to a White House that thrives on misdirection and deceit." cnn.com/2020/09/22/opi
In her presidential weekly briefing, writes that if Trump wants a successful "third date" with Kim Jong Un, he should log out of his Twitter account long enough to listen to his North Korean experts. cnn.com/2019/04/14/opi
.: "The pain and sorrow of black Americans is not only real, but it has authored the true story of America. My father passed this story down to me, but I refuse to pass it down to my children."
cnn.com/2020/05/28/opi
Nothing is more essential to the durability of American democracy than the ability of the people to vote. "Protection of that right has only one champion empowered to make it so -- the US Congress," writes . cnn.com/2021/03/17/opi
. explains why Democrats should welcome Joe Walsh and Anthony Scaramucci's efforts to defeat Trump in #2020Election. cnn.com/2019/08/25/opi
"I can tell you, the five presidential candidates I've worked for would have fired whoever was responsible for last night and apologized publicly to the city of Omaha. Don't hold your breath for Trump to do anything like that," writes . cnn.com/2020/10/28/opi
In Trump era, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon welcomes immigrants in his hometown, by cnn.it/2uMKIXV
Within one month of retaking the House, Democrats have managed to do something that proved to be almost impossible in the past two years -- they have constrained the President's ability to dominate the national conversation, writes cnn.it/2GjOXPW
An ad featuring a new mom was deemed "too graphic" to air at the Oscars, but by stifling images of what the postpartum experience is like we make women feel inadequate if they aren't well put together immediately after giving birth, writes. cnn.com/2020/02/09/opi
“Republicans have struggled to find a clear line of defense that engages with the substance of the allegations against Trump, and have instead tried to distract from the main issue,” writes
If we gloss over the attack, January 6, 2021 may be seen in the rear view mirror as the worst day in our country's history. Moving on without holding the perpetrators accountable may very well sound the death knell of our democracy, writes
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"Democrats cannot...continue traveling down a failed road which will only lead to disaster. Now is the time for a major course correction," writes
cnn.com/2022/01/20/opi
The #GRAMMYs have work to do to represent cultural reality, says – a point perhaps lost in the Billie Eilish sweep but made sharply by Lizzo, Diddy and the embattled former CEO. cnn.com/2020/01/27/opi
"A coup. That’s what Donald Trump Jr. was advocating for in a text message to his father’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows that laid out ways to subvert the Electoral College process and keep his father in power," writes
cnn.com/2022/04/09/opi
"There is plenty of fair criticism to level at the administration ... But calling for Biden's impeachment or resignation is a step too far, especially considering what the GOP was willing to defend with Trump," writes
cnn.com/2021/08/27/opi
"It was the feckless, willfully dangerous actions of mask-eschewing Republicans in Congress that put the health of their own colleagues at risk, even as they hid together from a rampaging mob of terrorists." - cnn.com/2021/01/13/opi
"If you go through all of American history, you can't find this many former administration officials warning against the reelection of the president they served." -
"The decision of the new attorney general, Merrick Garland, to appeal portions of Judge Jackson's ruling is a mistake, and marks a missed opportunity to break cleanly from the fundamental dishonesty that defined Barr's term in office." -
cnn.com/2021/05/25/opi
"Trump's groundless caterwauling this past week proves he's concerned about possible prosecution. He should be," write and Dennis Aftergut
cnn.com/2022/08/15/opi
Donald Trump's actions, particularly in Ukraine, prevent the American public and Congress from giving him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his decision to launch airstrikes in Iran, writes. cnn.com/2020/01/06/opi
To protect the rule of law, the Senate must demand, as a condition of confirmation, that Barr agree to recuse himself from the special counsel investigation, writes @waltshaub.
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"Chopra -- again, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador -- should not be using her voice to legitimize a regime opposed to the values she claims to represent," writes Pakistani actress . cnn.it/33C3ezW
"Facing another shortfall in campaign cash, Trump can't depend on the media to help him drive the narrative. His own record is defining the narrative and that's bad news for him, " writes CNN political analyst . cnn.com/2020/09/19/opi
. pays tribute to Anthony Bourdain: "I had no personal connection to Anthony Bourdain. He never bummed a smoke from me in a dark alley behind a restaurant or bought me a shot of local liquor in an exotic city. Yet, I feel his death keenly." cnn.com/2018/06/11/opi
"If you have to update your social media posts to distance yourself from seditionist chaos at events you knowingly promoted, it's time to stop promoting such events. Or rethink your views," writes . cnn.com/2021/02/05/opi
“The manifest tragedy of the life of Texas’ junior US Senator Ted Cruz is what he might have accomplished had he not wasted a fine intellect to serve his craven political ambitions,” writes James Moore cnn.com/2021/01/13/opi
"Only a person whose ancestors or family members bore no risk of being lynched themselves would dismiss as ‘ridiculous' objections to making hanging into a public political joke in Mississippi” - weighs in on Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments cnn.it/2OFrmsx
"He did everything right to achieve the American dream. And he died on April 1st -- leaving his three children orphaned.... But his story is not simply a tragedy. It is a triumph that he only got to see the start of," writes cnn.it/2Vk4gOY
"Harris's story is the story of a changing, inclusive America," writes . "Her vice-presidential candidacy would be historic and inspiring, not only for Black Americans, but for millions of voters of South Asian descent -- like me." cnn.it/3i1z8Mw
Pandemics, climate change, & environmental degradation are all related, write three scientists w/ -- but so are their solutions
"McEnany failed on an epic scale in her response. She did not provide context for Trump's statements. Instead, she perpetuated the lies even the President himself admitted to Woodward on tape," writes CNN political analyst . cnn.com/2020/09/10/opi
.: It is humbling to face these challenges that were once so routine. To dress. To eat. To walk. To read. To recall the names of loved ones cnn.com/2019/05/02/opi
"For a short moment in history, the shining city on the hill disappeared under a dark cloud, but I know it's still there." - cnn.com/2021/01/20/opi
Meghan Markle needs sisters, says .
"By sisters, I mean in the African-American vernacular, women who will ... laugh with her and be there for her, as she confronts the most invidious challenges that anti-Black racism can throw her way."
cnn.com/2023/02/22/opi
"...the suggestion that Sanders should stand down...because of a health condition that many Americans live and work with is not only callous, but carries a bitter flavor of discrimination," writes and @BenEschenheimer
cnn.com/2019/10/09/opi
. writes that Ukraine's investigation of the alleged surveillance of former Ambassador Yovanovitch could "pick up where the Senate trial leaves off, and that should worry the President." cnn.com/2020/01/17/opi
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"I used to be libertarian. I used to be atheist. I used to want America to be more atheist libertarian...none of that matters any more. I no longer care.
All I want out of America now is kindness. That's all," argues cnn.it/2yITjKT
. writes, "Trump is a big spending, Constitution-disregarding, dictator-coddling, traditional values-disdaining, identity politics-embracing, cancel culture-advocating craver of safe spaces." cnn.com/2020/08/24/opi
. to Georgia Rep. Collins: "Americans can, in good faith, differ about the legality or efficacy of killing Soleimani. That doesn't make them unpatriotic or lovers of terrorists. It is hostility to differences of opinion that is un-American." cnn.com/2020/01/09/opi
We should empower women in Africa, and their sisters, to unleash even greater economic prosperity and peace for the people of Africa, for our country, and for the world, writes cnn.com/2019/04/30/opi
"Republican election sabotage, in which GOP officials refuse to certify the winners, has started," write legal scholars and Dennis Aftergut.
cnn.com/2022/06/20/opi
“I don't think Trump radicalized the base -- rather he simply gave people permission to be who they always wanted to be,” writes cnn.com/2022/06/19/opi
. writes that influential African American leaders need to unite and overcorrect for the misinformation running rampant about black people being immune to #Covid_19 cnn.com/2020/04/06/opi
. writes that #Wisconsin's purge of voters is not just an attack on Democrats -- it's an attack on American democracy. cnn.com/2019/12/24/opi
"Being a Republican today is more synonymous with White nationalism, anti-science, and conspiracy theories than any clear set of principles or policies," writes .
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"Lilly Singh's show is more than just another late-night talk show. It's a tangible, visual reminder of why representation matters," says cnn.it/2kH1q75
"There has been far too little discussion of Sanders' 50-year record, nor have we seen a real view of how he would defend that record against a Republican onslaught," writes cnn.com/2020/01/15/opi
"Trump's Senate picks are floundering, and McConnell is laying the blame at the former President's door," writes cnn.com/2022/08/21/opi
"In the end, the one thing that has severely damaged this country from Day One -- Trump's utter devotion to himself -- may serve all of us in the end." -
cnn.com/2020/10/20/opi
Brittany Maynard: I have the right to die with dignity at 29 cnn.it/ZcmJw5
