
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.
Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











