Michelle Cottle

He can still give a good speech, but that may not be enough.

Three Opinion writers weigh in on the first presidential debate of 2024.

There’s a difference between being an elder statesman and an elderly one.

Tuesday’s primary will test the limits of Trumpism.

Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?

A new ad focuses on the ex-president’s criminal conviction.

Can populist leaders actually fix the world’s unsolvable problems?

She wins the spotlight she loves, but what will she do with it?

Flags, financial disclosures and the fragility of SCOTUS.

Three men of Opinion debate Trump’s appeal.

This was featured in live coverage.

But it’s not easy to get tuned-out voters to care.

Her craziest-clown-at-the-carnival act seems to have descended into a sad clown party of one.

For most New Yorkers, though, his early days are just a bad memory.

The president has many problems this election. Is Kamala Harris one of them?

Voters are getting a fresh reminder of the ethics and integrity of Donald Trump’s original innermost circle.

What the former president’s V.P. shortlist tells us about his possible second term.

It’s not just about her place in the G.O.P. but about the party, too.

Marjorie Taylor Greene never had enough juice to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

And the role politicians play in all of it.

The middle of the road may be the correct place to be, but it’s never a popular spot.

Why Democrats have a big team tracking every third-party candidate.

Jamelle Bouie on what America’s history tells us about this moment.

A surprising number of Republicans refused to vote for him in Tuesday’s primary.

She has, in very little time, undermined the influence of her party’s entire right flank.

Tuesday’s speech was an impressive call to arms.

Biden needs to find a narrative for his candidacy, then work like hell to push it out. But it’s hard to argue people out of their feelings.

There’s nothing he won’t exploit for a moment of political theater.

Rallying the faithful in the political battleground of eastern Pennsylvania, the former president made everyone else the bad guy.

But at least they got a glam (and gross) televised wedding out of it.

Does God have to be Republican?

Assuming voters think it’s more important than the border.

Why ditching phones won’t save the kids.

What better way to teach people the importance of election integrity than to have a defeated president undermine it?

The Republican Party is in disarray. The former president and his mounting legal woes are to blame.

But reproductive-rights supporters have a real chance at reversing the state’s six-week abortion ban.

It doesn’t want to hear it, but the Republican majority is too small for any significant wins.

How do you build a strong party when your money is also going to a candidate’s legal bills?

What Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Donald Trump all understand.

Senate Republicans may win back the chamber in November because they finally learned some lessons from election losses.

Decoding blood baths and Washington bluster.

It’s the election of our discontent.

The senator’s performance was completely over the top, just the way her admirers like it.

If re-elected, how far will Donald Trump and his supporters go in pursuit of the MAGA agenda?

What President Biden needs to accomplish at Thursday’s State of the Union address.

Many are happy to see her go, and they can stop worrying that she might help elect a Republican.

She’s been forced to walk a tightrope on gender.

Adam Schiff’s resistance to Trump has made him a Democratic hero in California, to the frustration of candidates farther to the left.

The hosts disagree on where America’s abortion debate is headed.

He never pretended to care about rules or principles. Winning was all that mattered.

He joins the hosts to talk inflation, bad vibes and how voters will respond in November.

As Adam Schiff is learning in California, the party’s split on the issue is significant.

What qualifies someone to be president, anyway?

Trump is making the Republican Party a fief of MAGA. Is the West Wing next?

On the mass cultural events that unite us — and where we’d be without them.

Ronna McDaniel, tossed from Trump’s window, just wasn’t fully MAGA enough for the king.

The country music world lost one of its funniest and most self-deprecating songwriters.

House Republicans should know the difference between incompetence and impeachment.

Gen Z is divided over politics. What will the fallout be?

She knows exactly why both candidates make voters uneasy.

Haley doesn’t talk very much about her gender, even though it excites some voters.

The hosts unpack the truism that voters don’t care about foreign policy.

After New Hampshire, the Never-Trump voters could be looking for a new home.

But there is always another one a few blocks away.

Many are concocting elaborate scenarios for why she should stay in the race.

So many voters are in search of another choice.

They’re overwhelmed by notebooks and microphones.

The governor of Florida lacks a certain quality that says, “I am human.”

Because New Hampshire is giving no indication that she or anyone else can.

Iowa didn’t reveal anything new. And here’s why the hosts aren’t holding their breath for New Hampshire.