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"It’s about different ways that choices impact our lives and impact our futures. how we connect to each other" - Winnie Holzman and @janegreenway talk about Holzman's play "Choice," the legacy of "My So-Called-Life" and the upcoming "Wicked" film.
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Winnie Holzman, writer of ‘My So-Called Life’ and ‘Wicked,’ speaks with CNN Opinion’s Jane Carr about the experience of creating ‘Choice,’ a play about abortion - and the other choices that shape our...
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"In resigning from the presidency 50 years ago this week, Nixon did more than make history — he created a template for presidential scandal that has stuck in the American mind," writes @pastpunditry
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Fifty years after President Richard Nixon’s resignation, it’s time to build new systems of political accountability, writes historian Nicole Hemmer.
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"To close this gap and get ahead of increasing cyber threats, the United States must take the lead in identifying and designating nations that harbor cybercriminal organizations," write Frank Cilluffo and Joshua Whitman
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Designating states as sponsors of cybercrime, much like the State Department designates state sponsors of terrorism, is overdue and necessary, write Frank Cilluffo and Joshua Whitman.
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"I have seen the impact of serious diseases and the promise of new vaccines as they are being developed. Sadly, I also have seen how these tools are not universally embraced," writes @GatesMRI vaccine scientist Mohamed Bassyouni.
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Mohamed Bassyouni has helped develop vaccines. He also has felt the pernicious effects of vaccine hesitancy, he writes.
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People in Gaza "desperately need skilled physicians like me," writes orthodepic surgeon Ali H. Elaydi, who writes however that he was denied permission to travel to the war torn region to volunteer. "The reason, I'm told, is that I'm Palestinian.".
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Ali Elaydi planned to take part in a humanitarian medical mission in Gaza, but Israel is blocking anyone of Palestinian descent from taking part in such efforts.
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"Because disasters reveal our vulnerabilities, they reflect the choices we make as a society. When we destroy and degrade much of the natural world, we make communities more vulnerable to disasters," writes Anita van Breda of @World_Wildlife
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When the ground starts to shake, or the floodwaters rush in, it’s not nature’s wrath that’s ultimately responsible for the death toll and destruction, writes Anita van Breda.
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Child workers in factories? Read the opinion essay by @amprog's Veronica Goodman on how Project 2025 would turn back the clock on longstanding US labor laws protecting kids.
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A pernicious aspect of Project 2025 is its plan to make child labor more common in dangerous and even life-threatening industries, writes Veronica Goodman.
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"With a record number of recent disasters, including severe storms, flooding and wildfires, and an active hurricane season forecast that has already seen Beryl hit Texas, it’s a bad time to be disaster-poor" - but too many Americans are, writes @dankandc
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As disaster devastation increases, many lack the financial preparedness skills and tools necessary to bounce back and think FEMA aid will be enough, writes Daniel Kaniewski.
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"Instead of guarding, protecting, defending and saving, as a coast guard should do, the China Coast Guard is attacking, intimidating, violating and threatening its neighbors in the region," writes retired US Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard Timme
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Instead of guarding, protecting, defending and saving, as a coast guard should do, China is attacking, intimidating, violating and threatening, writes Richard Timme.
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As the Olympics get underway, think about this message from former gold medal swimmer @CullenJones, who nearly died of drowning as a kid. His @CNNOpinion essay is a plea to make pools and swimming instruction accessible to more kids in this country.
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After nearly drowning as a child, Cullen Jones started swim lessons and went on to Olympic greatness. For their safety, all kids deserve access to pools, he says.
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Black Europeans will feature prominently at the Olympics, as sports fans in Europe seem increasingly inclined to embrace their growing diversity. A smart opinion piece by @keithlmagee.
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More than ever, the Olympic Games are showing us that patriotism can more than skin deep, writes Keith Magee.
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"Across the country, some of the hardest hit among the millions of people impacted by job losses or reduced hours following minimum wage increases are fast-food workers," writes Rachel Greszler of @Heritage.
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More money in the pockets of entry-level workers sounds great, but Rachel Greszler of the conservative Heritage Foundation argues that such workers, and the economy writ large, are hurt more than...
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"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not the endpoint of that struggle, but a single point on a continuum of those endeavoring to expand Americans’ freedom in opposition to those who would constrain it," writes @SmithsonianSec.
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Lonnie G. Bunch III recalls tense childhood trips “down South” with his family. Passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 made those journeys much less fraught, he writes.
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"As we have seen time and time again, failure to include pets in disaster evacuations not only affects the pets that are left behind, but it is also an issue of public health and safety," writes veterinarian Robin Chadwin
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Failure to include pets in disaster evacuations not only affects the pets that are left behind, but it is also an issue of public health and safety, writes Robin Chadwin.
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. If you do not allow anything to fail and you think everything is either too big or even too small to fail, then you’ve taken risk out of the system," says Ruchir Sharma
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CNN Opinion’s Bethany Cianciolo spoke with Ruchir Sharma about how capitalism has become increasingly distorted, and why true capitalism is still the best economic system.
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“Middle school is complicated enough without all the extra pressures generated by having a social media influencer sitting next to you,” writes @footnoted
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Middle school is complicated enough without all the extra pressures generated by having a social media influencer sitting next to you, writes Michelle Leder.
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"The explosive combination of pain, fear, anger, hopelessness and loss on the scale that Gaza and its people have suffered — coupled with growing lawlessness — will all but guarantee a deterioration into civil anarchy," writes @IamArwaDamon.
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Chaos, violence and desperation are almost certain to grip Gaza, even after the hostilities with Israel end, writes Arwa Damon
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"The history of the 1960s should remind us today that after Saturday’s shocking attempt on the life of Donald Trump, Biden has an uphill battle to calm the nation," writes @julianzelizer
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By virtue of his office, Biden is singularly positioned to attempt to soothe America, writes historian Julian Zelizer. But sadly, even if Biden was not in such a fragile political position, the odds...
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"Megadisasters decimate the supplies needed to respond to a disaster and destroy systems needed to manage catastrophes. A disaster becomes 'mega' through the hubris of societal development that amplifies our vulnerability" and more, writes @jeffschlegel
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Our development of societies has enhanced the threats posed by megadisasters and our underlying vulnerability to them, writes Jeff Schlegelmilch.
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"She single-handedly made it acceptable for millions to talk openly about subjects that many had previously confined to pillow talk," writes @agilbertwriter.
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Dr. Ruth, the trailblazing sex therapist, spent a lifetime of creating something from nothing, including a family to call her own, writes Allison Gilbert.
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