Pat Wiedenkeller

Joe Biden kicked off his 2020 presidential bid this week with a video. He looked into the camera and talked about the torch-wielding white supremacists of Charlottesville, with an opening argument that aimed to leap over his primary opponents.

Team Trump, which is often caught by surprise -- but seldom pleasantly -- seemed to catch a few unexpected breaks this week, with Democrats squabbling with one another, and an abbreviated sentence handed down by a judge for the President’s former campaign manager. Commentators this week had a lot to say about this and more...

Naked selfies or no naked selfies, Jeff Bezos is not going to be blackmailed or extorted by anybody. That’s what Bezos, the Amazon founder, told David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer, in a blog post that had a lot of people making the wide-eyed emoji face Thursday. Commentators had a lot to say about this and more this week...

With his poll numbers falling, President Donald Trump caved on his demand for a border wall, reopened the government for three weeks and got nothing in return. Meanwhile, Robert Mueller arrested Trump associate Roger Stone. Our commentators had a lot to say about these things and more this week.

There was zero work for many federal employees (and zeroes in their paychecks) as the government shutdown slipped into the record books as the longest ever; and zero movement on a southern border wall, even after President Trump used an Oval Office speech to demand it--then threatened to get the mon…

House speaker Nancy Pelosi is poised to use her new power to confront the President-- but faces challenges of her own in corralling an unafraid new class of Democrats. Commentators had a lot to say about all this and more this week.

A friendly Oval Office encounter previews 2019 politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t want to hear your excuses, Melania Trump’s spokeswoman speaks out, and Donald Trump could face a hellscape of legal trouble. Our commentators had a lot to say about all this and more this week.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to Congress from the Bronx; Maria Lila Meza Castro, whose image as she fled tear gas at the border went viral, and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex captured the headlines this week. CNN Opinion commentators weighed in...

After a week in which his party lost the House in the midterm elections, an angry and rattled President Trump arrived in France for World War I Armistice commemorations. Commentators spent the week pondering the implications of this and more.

What kind of America do you want? In the run-up to one of the country’s most consequential elections, CNN Opinion’s commentators spent the week thoughtfully turning over the issues that mattered most. Here’s a look at what they said.

After days of furious debate over who might have been responsible for sending package bombs to a range of people -- mainly prominent Democrats -- on Friday the apparent answer came. And then followed the tragic attack at a Pittsburgh temple. CNN Opinion looks back at how commentators tried to make s…