Michelle Cottle, David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom dissect Trump’s reach for power.

Joni Ernst tried a Trump move after her viral Medicaid comments. But she forgot the key thing about Trump: He never looks as though he’s trying too hard.

Joni Ernst tried a Trump move after her viral Medicaid comments. But she forgot the key thing about Trump: He never looks as though he’s trying too hard.

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right has turned compassion into weakness.

Three Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America.

For all the drama and trauma he wrought, driving out federal workers and hollowing out agencies, Elon Musk got nowhere near his goals and is already done.