Jamelle Bouie
The New York Times
Charlottesville, VA, United States
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Past articles by Jamelle:
The Real Threat to Freedom Is Coming From the States
We have a long history with various forms of sub-national authoritarianism. → Read More
Opinion | The Boys Who Cried ‘Woke!’
There’s a reason Republicans want to distract our attention from what’s really going on. → Read More
Opinion | The Relentless Attack on Trans People Is an Attack on All of Us
To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights. → Read More
Opinion | Ron DeSantis Likes His Culture Wars for a Reason
The governor of Florida has built his national political image on well-timed and strategically chosen battles that mask his economic agenda. → Read More
Opinion | You Can Let Republicans Destroy the Economy, or You Can Call Their Bluff
The 14th Amendment offers a blueprint for tearing down the debt ceiling. → Read More
Opinion | Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction
Du Bois helps us look past the ephemera of our politics to focus on what matters most. → Read More
Opinion | Jim Crow Should Have Made One Thing Clear
We don’t need foreign models to understand America’s authoritarian tendencies → Read More
Opinion | The Idea That Letting Trump Walk Will Heal America Is Ridiculous
If a president can get away with an attempted coup (as well as abscond with classified documents), then there’s nothing he can’t do. → Read More
Opinion | Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail
You can’t take the conflict out of politics. Nor should you want to. → Read More
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is the Final Word on Nothing
It, too, can be checked and balanced. → Read More
Opinion | Ginni Thomas Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
If the tables were turned, Republicans would not hesitate to use every argument, and every tool, at their disposal. → Read More
Opinion | Beware the Ruinous Optimism of Democratic Leaders
Millions of Democratic voters can see and feel that American politics has changed in profound ways since at least the 1990s. → Read More
Opinion | Jan. 6 Was a ‘War Scene,’ and Trump Was the Director
The spectacle is the message. → Read More
A Minor Strongman, Some Conservative Populists and Tucker Carlson Went to a Conference
Viktor Orban’s Hungary has a lot to offer them. → Read More
Opinion | Republicans Can’t Handle Losing
When they do, they just want to change the rules. → Read More
Opinion | The Slaughter in Buffalo Hasn’t Quieted the Great Replacement Caucus
Neither did the slaughter in Pittsburgh or El Paso. → Read More
Opinion | This Is Why It Took More Than 100 Years to Get an Anti-Lynching Bill
Our political system was the primary obstacle to protecting the lives and livelihoods of its own citizens. → Read More
Opinion | How Are We Still Debating Interracial Marriage in 2022?
The Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing unleashed some deeply retro senatorial opinions. → Read More
Opinion | Cancel Culture in 1832 Sounded Pretty Fierce
On Tocqueville and the ostracism that accompanies dissent. → Read More
Opinion | The Supreme Court Did the Right Thing. I’m Still Worried.
A breathtaking claim about the nature of state legislative power was rejected. But for how long? → Read More