Jamelle Bouie

None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.

The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.

The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.

A look at the senator’s defense of Donald Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election.

There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.

Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.

The era of Southern apartheid is inseparable from poverty, exploitation and violence.

This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.

It’s crazy to think Donald Trump wants to be a felon.

When it comes to Justice Alito, we’re in uncharted territory.

Once you start talk about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” what comes next?

It is comforting to think that the red meat is for someone else.

This film franchise delivers on several levels.

With or without Trump, the Republican threat to democracy remains.

Oh, how quickly we forget.

His corruption is on display once again.

It’s never good to be on trial, no matter who you are.

When election denialism is a prerequisite.

What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

On what planet were Trump’s actions a normal response to political defeat?

The former president’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason.

It has never been more obvious that the Republican Party is the party of the boss.

Exceptions to abortion bans aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

Whereas an earlier generation complained of C.I.O. “communism,” this one warns of U.A.W. socialism.

The federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have conjured a past that rejects the right to bodily autonomy.

Alex Garland’s new film is most interested in the experience of living through an armed conflict.

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.

He landed a major blow against legal abortion during his first term. If given a second, he will land another.

If there seems to be a different set of rules for the former president, that’s because, for all intents and purposes, there is.

Beyond the surface-level nonsense of the “great replacement” theory lies a subtler issue.

The justices are betting that they can’t be held to account.

You don’t talk about “poisoning the blood of our country” to pass the time.

Voters’ concerns about abortion rights won’t be easy to avoid.

What matters even more than the candidates is the coalitions they lead.

The Senate minority leader may not like the former president, but he has done more for him than many other Republican leaders.

What the former president says is less important than what key parts of the Republican coalition want.

Democrats could pay a heavy price for bypassing the primary process.

The Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are children is only part of the problem.

A billionaire in Texas is showing how our system really works.

The challenge of this election is to remind the voting public that the former president is, in fact, a conservative Republican.

Unfortunately for Biden, the former president benefits from something akin to the soft bigotry of low expectations.

The man who would be king comes up against a three-judge panel.

Let the third-party follies begin.

Lincoln was ahead of his time in so many ways.

Secession, like its cousin nullification, rests on a mistaken conception of the American union.

Trump has no rightful place in the leadership of the American Republic.

Lawmakers in Tennessee, Oklahoma and other Republican states want to turn the clock back to the 19th century.

Trump is assured of nothing.

It sure felt that way sometimes.

(It’s not as simple as you may think.)

Trump may be from Queens, but he has deep roots in Southern populism.

Jan. 6 cannot go down the memory hole.

By any measure, Trump has been a unique electoral loser for the Republican Party.

Who will be the best of the rest?

We must take his work as seriously, and as holistically, as we can.

The former president manipulates the threat of violence as a form of political control.

Resistance to his candidacy is not futile.

2016 is not the only election that matters.

The former president is just the man the 14th Amendment envisioned barring from office.

We need to fight political despair everywhere we find it.

If you want a sense of what the future could bring if either party wins full control of the federal government, all you have to do is look at the states.

He thought nothing of the democratic aspirations of most people on this planet, Americans more or less included.

As the country has grown larger and more diverse, the disparities have grown greater and more perverse.

Here’s what caught my eye this week.

Antidemocratic attitudes run deep within the Republican Party.

Checks and balances are for losers.

It is an approach that repels and alienates far more than it persuades.

When drivers rule the road, irresponsibility becomes fatal.

There’s a reason Trump likes this guy.

Younger voters may get more conservative as they age, but that doesn’t mean they will become Republicans.