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‘Is It Too Late?’ Four Writers on What Democrats Should Do About Biden.
None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.
By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Goldberg, Patrick Healy and Bret Stephens
Based in Charlottesville, Va., and Washington, Jamelle Bouie became a New York Times Opinion columnist in 2019. Before that he was the chief political correspondent for Slate magazine.
Mr. Bouie, who is a political analyst for CBS News, has been a staff writer at The Daily Beast and has held fellowships at The American Prospect and The Nation magazine. You can follow him on X (formerly Twitter).
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None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.
By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Goldberg, Patrick Healy and Bret Stephens
The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.
By Jamelle Bouie
The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.
By Jamelle Bouie
A look at the senator’s defense of Donald Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election.
By Jamelle Bouie
There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.
By Jamelle Bouie
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
By Jamelle Bouie
The era of Southern apartheid is inseparable from poverty, exploitation and violence.
By Jamelle Bouie
This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.
By Jamelle Bouie
It’s crazy to think Donald Trump wants to be a felon.
By Jamelle Bouie
When it comes to Justice Alito, we’re in uncharted territory.
By Jamelle Bouie
Once you start talk about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” what comes next?
By Jamelle Bouie
It is comforting to think that the red meat is for someone else.
By Jamelle Bouie
This film franchise delivers on several levels.
By Jamelle Bouie
With or without Trump, the Republican threat to democracy remains.
By Jamelle Bouie
Oh, how quickly we forget.
By Jamelle Bouie
His corruption is on display once again.
By Jamelle Bouie
It’s never good to be on trial, no matter who you are.
By Jamelle Bouie
When election denialism is a prerequisite.
By Jamelle Bouie
What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?
By Jamelle Bouie
On what planet were Trump’s actions a normal response to political defeat?
By Jamelle Bouie
The former president’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason.
By Jamelle Bouie
It has never been more obvious that the Republican Party is the party of the boss.
By Jamelle Bouie
Exceptions to abortion bans aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
By Jamelle Bouie
Whereas an earlier generation complained of C.I.O. “communism,” this one warns of U.A.W. socialism.
By Jamelle Bouie
The federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have conjured a past that rejects the right to bodily autonomy.
By Jamelle Bouie
Alex Garland’s new film is most interested in the experience of living through an armed conflict.
By Jamelle Bouie
The Electoral College as we know it is less a product of the insight or design of the framers and more a contingent adaptation to the political world.
By Jamelle Bouie
He landed a major blow against legal abortion during his first term. If given a second, he will land another.
By Jamelle Bouie
If there seems to be a different set of rules for the former president, that’s because, for all intents and purposes, there is.
By Jamelle Bouie
Beyond the surface-level nonsense of the “great replacement” theory lies a subtler issue.
By Jamelle Bouie