The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think. — Jamelle Bouie Election Copy Share Image
With or without Trump, a Republican Party that cannot share this country with its political opponents is a Republican Party that will… — Jamelle Bouie Country Copy Share Image
As long as voting is voluntary, young people will likely always vote at lower rates than their older counterparts. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
American presidents are moral leaders and role models as much as they're political leaders and heads of state - they are meant… — 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
Trump obviously believes his strategy of riling voters up with bigotry is effective. What's striking is the political press agrees with him. — Jamelle Bouie Bigotry Copy Share Image
Our legislatures are not built to allow working people to participate as members. Neither, for that matter, is our political system writ… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
There is no way in which the Democratic Party constitutes a threat to capitalism. At most, the party's program of regulation, redistribution… — Jamelle Bouie Capitalism Copy Share Image
Trump's authoritarian instincts - his refusal to accept or even learn the rules of the constitutional system - are a huge part… — Jamelle Bouie Authoritarian 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very… — Jamelle Bouie Civil war Copy Share Image
If Trump wants to serve a second term in the Oval Office, he needs to persuade the same voters who denied him… — Jamelle Bouie Chaos Copy Share Image
Like any long-running series, 'Planet of the Apes' - which spans 10 films and more than 50 years - has its lows.… — Jamelle Bouie Adventure Copy Share Image
Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
We don't live in a party system where political parties have that kind of control of authority or authority over the people… — Jamelle Bouie Authority Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on. — 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 Europe Copy Share Image
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 History Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who thinks that Joe Biden is going to somehow drop dead in the middle of being president. — Jamelle Bouie Being 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is often derided as a man of impulse and ego without conviction or belief. This is true on most questions… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The myth of Donald Trump is that he is immune to scandal - that there's nothing he could say or do that… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a comedian and talk show host, Jon Stewart has been pretty funny. But as a pundit and player in our politics,… — Jamelle Bouie Comedian Copy Share Image
After embracing the Republican congressional agenda, Trump can't run on building infrastructure and protecting retirement programs. But he still has racism. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
In a political culture as obsessed with drama and celebrity as our own, it is easy to lose sight of the fact… — Jamelle Bouie Celebrity Copy Share Image
This vision of Trump as tribune of the 'real America' has trickled down from Trump's most devoted acolytes to the rest of… — Jamelle Bouie America Copy Share Image
Trump v. United States would become, in short order, one of the worst opinions ever issued by the Supreme Court. — Jamelle Bouie Constitution Copy Share Image
When it became clear to Vance that Trump was the only game in town on his side of the aisle, he did… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For a generation, Biden was at the front of a national push for tough drug laws and police militarization. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump. There was no breathing room - no calm… — Jamelle Bouie Calm Copy Share Image
There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently interesting, as 'Planet of the Apes.' — Jamelle Bouie Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't serve potatoes at Thanksgiving. There's already enough starch and butter in the meal, but if I did, it would be… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The truth is that regimes of corrupt, personalist rule - in which authoritarians wield the state to reward friends, punish enemies and… — Jamelle Bouie Authoritarians Copy Share Image
A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence… — Jamelle Bouie Dehumanization 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
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
