Jamelle Bouie

The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.

— Jamelle Bouie

Racial hysteria has been a part of many winning campaigns in our country. But it's rarely the only part.

— Jamelle Bouie

Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump was not helped by either of his impeachments, and there's no reason other than his own mythology to think that a…

— Jamelle Bouie

If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it…

— Jamelle Bouie

By no means is Trump the first president or even the first Republican president to abuse the power of the office in…

— Jamelle Bouie

For liberals in particular, the idea that government is only hypocrisy and dysfunction is self-defeating and nihilistic.

— Jamelle Bouie

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part…

— Jamelle Bouie

Americans tend to focus on external threats to our democracy: foreign adversaries wielding disinformation and subversion. But the most serious dangers have…

— Jamelle Bouie

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is notorious for his efforts to secure 'election integrity' through voter purges and other efforts to…

— Jamelle Bouie

To vote in the United States, you can't simply go cast a ballot.

— Jamelle Bouie

The ring, in 'The Lord of the Rings,' represents power in all of its terrible glory.

— Jamelle Bouie

As long as voting is voluntary, young people will likely always vote at lower rates than their older counterparts.

— Jamelle Bouie

Hillary Clinton made plenty of tactical and strategic missteps in her bid for the White House.

— Jamelle Bouie

A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence…

— Jamelle Bouie

When it became clear to Vance that Trump was the only game in town on his side of the aisle, he did…

— Jamelle Bouie

A large part of running for president is intense scrutiny on personal history and political records. But once you're in office, that…

— Jamelle Bouie

An honest examination of democratic decline would look at the ways in which our counter-majoritarian institutions are thwarting the public will -…

— Jamelle Bouie

Trump does not gain strength with every attempt to place limits on his behavior. Accountability does not jolt him into political action.…

— Jamelle Bouie

On op-ed pages and around dinner tables, Americans have substantive conversations about politics. And while the facts aren't always right, the discussion…

— Jamelle Bouie

Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on.

— Jamelle Bouie

The Republican Party never moved on from Nixon's 'silent majority,' from the notion that it alone represents the supposedly authentic people of…

— Jamelle Bouie

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their…

— Jamelle Bouie