Across the country, Republican politicians have used the threat of voter fraud and the promise of 'election integrity' to justify new barriers… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Democracy depends on the legitimacy of the process for winning and exchanging power. Once lost, that legitimacy is difficult to recover. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
An honest examination of democratic decline would look at the ways in which our counter-majoritarian institutions are thwarting the public will -… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If the 14th Amendment represents the struggle to build inclusive models of national identity untethered from racial caste or classification, then Trump… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The irony of capitalist discontent with democracy is that capitalist democracy has been a very good deal for capitalists. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Far from an excess of majority rule, American democracy has seen the rise of minority rule, with efforts to entrench it in… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Actual threats to American democracy range from voter suppression and unaccountable 'dark money' to explicit efforts to engineer 'minority rule' in Washington… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Brian Kemp and Kris Kobach aren't the only figures subverting democracy to their own ends; they are just the most open and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of less hostile… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a trial and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
By no means is Trump the first president or even the first Republican president to abuse the power of the office in an effort… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For liberals in particular, the idea that government is only hypocrisy and dysfunction is self-defeating and nihilistic. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering Republicans and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part of the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have always come… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to shrink the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
