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  Jill Biden: What Ukrainian mothers taught me about this war

  CNN - Jill Biden

  CNN — You cannot go into a war zone and come away unchanged. You don’t have to see the sorrow with your eyes because you can feel it with your heart. The thing about grief is that it veils one’s face. It’s like a haze has descended. The tears of the mothers stay permanently on the edges of their …

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  Opinion: SEL doesn’t have to be a classroom culture war

  CNN - Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  CNN — “There are very powerful forces at work here,” conservative commentator Glenn Beck intoned on a recent episode of his podcast, imploring his listeners to gird for battle against a what he called a “master grooming and brainwashing technique” threatening American children. The enemy Beck and …

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  Opinion: The bad news about the economy

  CNN - Jeffrey D. Sachs

  CNN — The inflation report for April brought no good news. The year-over-year inflation rate was 8.3%. The monthly “core” inflation, stripping away volatile food and energy prices, was 0.6%, which comes to 7.4% at a compounded annual rate. Inflation, in short, continues running at near 40-year …

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  Opinion: No more union-busting. It’s time for companies to give their workers what they deserve

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  This year, workers at Amazon, Starbucks and other major corporations are winning a wave of union elections, often in the face of long odds and employer resistance. These wins are showing it’s possible for determined groups of workers to break through powerful employers’ use of union-busting …

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  The possible overturn of Roe v. Wade should surprise no one. Marginalized women have been sounding the alarm for decades

  CNN - Opinion by Pamela Shifman

  (CNN) — The leaked draft ruling of the US Supreme Court to reverse Roe versus Wade -- the landmark 1973 judgment that ruled it unconstitutional to restrict the right to have an abortion -- was devastating but not surprising. Nor was the news on Wednesday that the Senate voted down a key bill that …

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  Opinion: Families suffered from America’s nuclear testing. They still need help

  CNN - Ben Ray Luján

  CNN — As the sun rose over Tularosa, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, Henry Herrera helped his father fill their truck’s radiator. Suddenly, a blinding flash overtook the dawn light. A roaring boom followed, striking fear into Henry and his family. Elsewhere in Tularosa, some were knocked back from …