
Opinion: The red-blue divide is growing even bigger
CNN
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously cast the states as "laboratories of democracy," writes Richard Galant. Inherent in that view is the possibility some state experiments will go wrong; even wildly wrong, as many believe is happening today amid an intensifying culture war.
States must have the power to reshape "our economic practices and institutions to meet changing social and economic needs," he wrote in a dissenting opinion.

One year ago this week, Joe Biden was president. I was in Doha, Qatar, negotiating with Israel and Hamas to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The incoming Trump team worked closely with us, a rare display of nonpartisanship to free hostages and end a war. It feels like a decade ago. A lot can happen in a year, as 2025 has shown.












