Jamelle Bouie

Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering Republicans and persuaded just enough moderate and independent voters in the right places - essentially the bare minimum - to back him over Hillary Clinton.

I got into journalism through writing, primarily. So even when I took photos when I was reporting, I never thought of photography as the reason I'm doing this.

Our legislatures are not built to allow working people to participate as members. Neither, for that matter, is our political system writ large.

The most important takeaway from the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States is that Chief Justice John Roberts, with the approval of his Republican colleagues, rewrote the Constitution to place the president above the law.

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

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

With or without Trump, a Republican Party that cannot share this country with its political opponents is a Republican Party that will always look for one way or another to stop the steal.

The Trump campaign's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants, along with many American citizens, is a promise to plunge the country into an authoritarian nightmare. It is also a promise of strife and pervasive civil conflict.

There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently interesting, as 'Planet of the Apes.'

If the 14th Amendment represents the struggle to build inclusive models of national identity untethered from racial caste or classification, then Trump stands for those who see America in opposite terms: as a white democracy, a master's democracy, whose promise will always belong to those who dominate.

If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a cautionary tale that was lost on JD Vance.

Republican lawmakers unwilling or unable to win blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, and other groups have used the leeway of Shelby County to institute voter purges and sharply gerrymander their electorates on racial lines.

The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from a 'socialist' or 'communistic' New Deal.

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and tried to keep their households intact as best they could. But they lived ultimately at the mercy of the master, who could and would destroy those families for profit and personal gain.

Kavanaugh is unpopular, but he does not belong to a disfavored group. He is not disadvantaged by class or burdened with the weight of caste. He has lived a life of wealth and privilege, moving in and between elite spaces with little apparent friction.

I grew up with 'The Daily Show.' It hit its stride during the 2004 election - my last full year in high school - and was critical viewing when Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination and then the presidency, my last full year in college.

After embracing the Republican congressional agenda, Trump can't run on building infrastructure and protecting retirement programs. But he still has racism.

American chattel slavery was practically defined by the fundamental instability of Black families. The institution rested on the expropriation of the reproductive capacities of the enslaved. Men and women were forced to have children who were then sold for profit.

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

Across the country, Republican politicians have used the threat of voter fraud and the promise of 'election integrity' to justify new barriers to registration and voting.