When we clicked a mouse on the morning of October 24 and the new CNN.com came to life, a new section of the site was also born.

Nestled between the Travel and iReport tabs on the home page, you’ll find Opinion - the home for a robust lineup of writers who will challenge, reshape or confirm your views on all kinds of topics.

Since launch, we've heard from Wynton Marsalis on the blues and race, from Lance Armstrong on surviving and fighting cancer, John McCain on the Afghanistan war, Jonathan Safran Foer on factory-farmed food, Joy Behar on President Obama and his critics, Helen Thomas on what she’s learned from covering nine presidents and Deepak Chopra on giving to charity.

We’ve welcomed new features – columns by neo-conservative David Frum and Mashable Founder Pete Cashmore and the first TED Talk Tuesday, a video by an original and provocative thinker filmed at a TED conference - along with commentaries by the speakers and others written especially for CNN.com. For more about TED, see TED curator Chris Anderson’s introduction.

Videos in the section will include the weekly “Knock-a-round,” a fast tour through the week’s top issues by Roland Martin and Ruben Navarrette Jr. And Opinion will be the home for commentary by all of CNN’s outstanding contributors.

We hope you’ll sound off with your comments on what you read and see - and share your reaction by sending iReports.

It’s still early, but we think Opinion will give you new perspectives and help inform your views. At times, it may infuriate you - or give you a reason to smile. But we promise to keep putting thought-provoking insights on the table.

Thanks for being part of the conversation.