Zachary B. Wolf - Senior Writer, CNN Politics
Zachary B. Wolf
Senior Writer, CNN Politics
Zach Wolf writes the What Matters newsletter for CNN. He also serves as a senior writer for CNN Politics, where he writes political analysis and is a frequent guest on CNN's Early Start.
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Did Trump’s lawyers misquote George Washington? Here’s what the first president actually said
Apr 25, 2024
Searching for some evidence that the Founding Fathers would have supported “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for former President Donald Trump, his lawyers have turned to George Washington.
Your questions about Trump’s immunity claim at the Supreme Court, answered
Apr 24, 2024
While New York’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with regard to the 2016 election is progressing, the federal case against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election remains in limbo.
Abortion rights: New state bans, yet another Supreme Court case and Biden’s Florida dream
Apr 24, 2024
Courts, legislatures, presidential campaigns and everyday Americans are all still grappling with the end of Roe v. Wade two years ago.
Trump’s immunity claim hits the Supreme Court. What are your questions?
Apr 23, 2024
While former President Donald Trump is sitting through a criminal trial in state court in Manhattan related to hush money payments made ahead of the 2016 election, separately, the US Supreme Court will soon hear his claim of immunity from prosecution in federal court in Washington, DC.
Will Trump testify? What he says and why it’s a risky bet
Apr 22, 2024
Prosecutors and defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump opened the New York criminal trial on Monday by laying out their opposing sides of the case.
What questions do you have about Trump’s hush money trial?
Apr 22, 2024
Former President Donald Trump faces not one but potentially four criminal trials. Send us your questions about this case, which marks the first prosecution of a former president in US history.
6 surprises from a major news week
Apr 20, 2024
It was a week of unexpected developments in an unpredictable but consequential election year.
Why is the Trump trial jury anonymous? The brief and imperfect history of anonymous juries in the US
Apr 18, 2024
While former President Donald Trump is spinning conspiracy theories about people infiltrating the jury in his hush money criminal trial, the judge in the case is finding it difficult to protect jurors’ anonymity.
Some House Republicans need this reminder that Russia is not their friend
Apr 17, 2024
There is a major disconnect between two CNN stories on Wednesday about Russia and the US.
Deepening US divide over Israel tests the limits of free speech
Apr 16, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters are resorting to ever-louder and intrusive tactics – like shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge during Monday’s morning commute and blocking access to Chicago’s O’Hare airport – as they try to shake US support for Israel and draw attention to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Trump has an unusual request on trial Day 1
Apr 16, 2024
The first ever criminal trial of a former US president got underway in state court in Manhattan on Monday with the difficult task of finding an impartial jury to sit for a trial that could last months.
Donald Trump hush money trial, explained
Apr 15, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan for his alleged role in a hush money scheme to silence his alleged mistresses before the 2016 election.
Your questions about Trump’s trial, answered
Apr 15, 2024
When CNN asked for your questions about former President Donald Trump’s upcoming first criminal trial – for his role in hush money payments made before the 2016 election to women who said they had affairs with him – we got a flood of input. Not all of it was fit to print.
What information is the government actually collecting under FISA?
Apr 11, 2024
A Republican rift is jeopardizing extension of a cornerstone of the US intelligence gathering by which the government hoovers up massive amounts of internet and cellphone data.
Civil War-era abortion ban rises again, which is exactly what some Roe opponents wanted
Apr 10, 2024
It’s jarring to think that Arizonans today – thanks to a new state Supreme Court ruling – will soon be living under an abortion law from when Arizona was a frontier territory and that predates the light bulb and antibiotics.
What the heck is happening with college financial aid this year?
Apr 6, 2024
The already stressful college admissions process was thrown into chaos this year by a botched bureaucratic upgrade. Hiccups and delays in the federal financial aid process have kept some high school seniors and current college students from getting aid packages from schools.
About
Zach Wolf writes the What Matters newsletter for CNN. He also serves as a senior writer for CNN Politics, where he writes political analysis and is a frequent guest on CNN’s Early Start. He previously served as digital director of CNN Politics and managing editor of CNN Politics during the 2016 presidential election. He joined CNN in July 2013 as a senior planning editor.
Before coming to CNN, Wolf was senior political editor and deputy political director for ABC News.
Wolf also worked as an assignment editor in ABC’s Washington Bureau and as a freelance producer in California, where he is from and one day hopes to return. He graduated from UC Berkeley.
