Chris Cuomo is burning down CNN. And taking Don Lemon with him.
Today's lead column is about Chris Cuomo, the former CNN anchor who was fired in December. He's now seeking millions from the news network and he's also coming for another CNN journalist: Don Lemon.
Chris Cuomo is burning down CNN. And he's taking Don Lemon with him.
By Tim Swarens
Chris Cuomo is burning down the house. Perhaps we should stand back simply to admire the flames.
On Wednesday, Cuomo asked for an arbitrator to award him $125 million because CNN fired him for what even a first-year journalism student would have understood to be egregious ethical violations.
Cuomo's Trumpian-style lack of ethics is old news. But his rationale for demanding enough money to make a tech exec envious is truly novel: I wasn't the only dishonest journalist on CNN's payroll.
From COVID to war, fear hurts our health. Here's how to cope.
By Dr. Marc Siegel
Two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, a new Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the American Psychological Association found that 63% of American adults said their lives have been forever changed. Loss of life, economic hardship and cultural changes have been pervasive.
The survey revealed widespread grief and worry about children’s development. Almost half of those surveyed reported a big increase in sedentary behavior, which will be difficult to reverse, and a majority revealed significant unwanted weight changes. Drinking and substance abuse have been on the rise because of the stress of the pandemic and its restrictions.
And just when it appeared that stress and fear were finally giving way to a feeling of liberation as the number of cases and hospitalizations and associated mandates from COVID dropped dramatically, along came the war in Ukraine.
How to save America: Let's work together to reduce toxic polarization
By Pearce Godwin
Experts who’ve witnessed sectarian violence break out in countries around the world are sounding the alarm in the United States, begging us to grasp what our once exceptional nation could soon become. This danger isn’t lost on the American people.
More than 80% of those responding to an Action Button that NationBuilder recently published across media networks for our #ListenFirst Coalition said they “want a less divided America.”
This overwhelming demand for a way out of toxic polarization is validated by multiple national surveys. Americans across party lines and demographic groups say “division in the country” is the most important issue facing them personally and rank “uniting the country” as the most important national priority.
Other columns to read today
- Ukraine war diary: I grew up in Russia. Now I fight in Kyiv for Ukraine.
- Decades after Voting Rights Act, protections for some still undermined
- Blame the virus, not nursing homes for residents' deaths in a pandemic
- Zelenskyy challenged Americans to live up to our highest ideals
This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos.