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Trump Shows His Contempt for Us. Again.

Trump Shows His Contempt for Us. Again.

This is ‘what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.’

yesterday 2

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Doesn’t Want to Listen to Anyone but Himself

Trump Doesn’t Want to Listen to Anyone but Himself

The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.

30.09.2026 10

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?

The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.

26.09.2026 10

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now

The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now

New matrix, meet the old matrix.

23.09.2026 30

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

16.09.2026 20

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Cult of Trump Is Waning

The president has a very simple strategy for the midterms.

12.09.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Pierre Damas Bel Should Still Be Alive

The price of unprotected status can be very high.

05.09.2026 10

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump’s Fantasy-Reality Problem Is Deepening

The president’s unusual relationship to the objective world leaves him dangerously unable to pivot, shift gears or change course.

02.09.2026 20

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.

29.08.2026 30

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The President Is a Man Who Would Rather Be King

Trump does not see himself as a mere president subject to the public’s opinion.

26.08.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Real Natalie Harp Scandal Is the President’s Information Diet

President Trump exists in a degraded, chaotic environment.

22.08.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump’s Revenge

The lust for vengeance shapes the president’s priorities, drives his actions and structures the decisions of his government.

19.08.2026 10

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Is in a Fantasy Land of His Own Making

What would happen if he’s forced to confront an external crisis?

15.08.2026 30

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Right Can’t Even Make a Revenge Movie Well

‘Citizen Vigilante’ is a bargain-bin movie for the ages.

01.08.2026 20

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

29.07.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Joe McCarthy Lives!

Trump’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.

22.07.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Ketanji Brown Jackson Knows What 1776 Meant

The revolutionary meaning of the Declaration of Independence did not elude her.

18.07.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Seduction of Lindsey Graham

He could see the obvious truth that Trump was a malign and corrosive force in American politics — that is, until Trump won the White House.

15.07.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Five Words That Changed America

It wasn’t Thomas Jefferson who made “All men are created equal” actually mean something.

01.07.2026 80

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Obama and Mamdani Show How It’s Done

Shadow commemorations in Chicago and New York.

20.06.2026 30

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

If You Don’t Vote for Republicans, You Don’t Exist

“Voter fraud” is not about fraud. It is about who votes and how.

17.06.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Only One President Could Come Up With This Spectacle

Trump has gone beyond kayfabe.

13.06.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution

It starts with “We the people” for a reason.

10.06.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Escape From Trumpism

The best pathway out is to make Congress great again.

06.06.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

Lincoln would know how to deal with these Republicans.

03.06.2026 100

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Now Give Me Money (That’s What I Want)

Trump has molded the presidency in his image. It isn’t pretty.

20.05.2026 60

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Law They Hate Was a High Point of Our History

The Voting Rights Act has more democratic legitimacy than the court that is trying to destroy it.

16.05.2026 60

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

This Is Getting Dangerous

The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais might drive America’s politics to an even more precarious place of partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.

13.05.2026 80

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go

Virginians must fight back against its Supreme Court in the name of popular sovereignty.

09.05.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist

Guess who benefits from a “colorblind Constitution.”

06.05.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.

29.04.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

The president is one of a kind.

22.04.2026 70

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Still Hearts McKinley

The president loves the 19th century. But why?

18.04.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Is in Over His Head

This is not a man in control of himself.

15.04.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Birthright Con

Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.

01.04.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Stephen Miller’s Latest Low

His project of subordination at home and abroad continues unabated.

28.03.2026 70

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

When a Narcissist Goes to War

Trump cannot see that his opposition is real. He cannot see that it can act of its own accord.

25.03.2026 70

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

What Is the Left’s Theory of Power?

The constitutional strength of a functional Congress.

21.03.2026 100

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

The Last Thing Trump Wants to Do Is Save America

This Is what the president is fixated on right now?

18.03.2026 70

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Is There Method to Trump’s Madness?

Don’t hold your breath.

14.03.2026 80

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump Is the Anti-Trump

There is an alternate universe in which the president is the popular, successful figure of his imagination.

11.03.2026 100

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Guess What Trump Values Above the Constitution

The State of the Union was very revealing.

01.03.2026 60

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

What Hath Trump Wrought

The real state of the union.

25.02.2026 60

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

A Q & A with Andrea Pitzer.

21.02.2026 450

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Marco Rubio Is Failing Western Civ

The Declaration of Independence’s powerful vision of equality stands as a chief obstacle to the MAGA right’s effort to consummate its vision of...

19.02.2026 2000

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become

Any serious push to account for the actions of this government must include recompense and repair for its victims.

11.02.2026 50

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

This Is Just Who Trump Is

The birther of a nation.

08.02.2026 250

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Common Ground Is for Suckers

Some are more American than others.

04.02.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Trump’s Brute-Force Approach to Power Is Wearing Thin

Arresting Don Lemon doesn’t send the message the president wants it to.

01.02.2026 100

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

Minneapolis May Be Trump’s Gettysburg

The White House has failed to achieve either its strategic or its tactical goals in Minnesota.

28.01.2026 40

The New York Times

Jamelle Bouie