The GOP chooses chaos over everything else
CNN
In "Hamnet," novelist Maggie O'Farrell writes: "The trick is never to let down your guard." Jane Greenway Carr presents CNN Opinion contributors' smartest takes on a week of chaos from the GOP, the blunt truth about Covid vaccination and the Delta variant, what Nikole Hannah-Jones's job decision reveals, deadly heat out West, the worst speech of Biden's presidency, Haiti's unraveling democracy, the National Spelling Bee winner's exuberant message and much more.
Not comforting words, no. But their blunt acknowledgment of vigilance and fear in an unpredictable world resonates as the United States meets the mutability of a post-pandemic landscape -- one in which a rising, highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid traverses a politicized map of the vaccine-hesitant.Federal investigators accuse a south Florida man of traversing two continents, stealing license plates and obscuring a security camera to kidnap his estranged wife at her apartment in Spain earlier this year. But the man and his attorneys say he has never stepped foot in Spain and insist he is innocent.
The Alitos and Roberts discuss politically sensitive topics in secret recordings by liberal activist
A left-wing activist released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, his wife and Chief Justice John Roberts discussing a range of topics.