Jamelle Bouie

Charlottesville

Opinion Columnist at The New York Times

Co-Host at Unclear and Present Danger Podcast

My name is Jamelle Bouie. @nytopinion columnist. Co-host of @UnclearPod. Upgrade your grey matter, ‘cuz one day it may matter.

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Articles

Imperial Control: Now the President is an art critic

1 day ago | dtnext.in | Jamelle Bouie

NEW DELHI: Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. “Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am hereby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position.
Now the President Is an Art Critic

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

Last week, President Trump announced that he had fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. "Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of D.E.I., which is totally inappropriate for her position.
Now the President Is an art critic

2 days ago | benningtonbanner.com | Jamelle Bouie

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. "Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position.
Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie |Michelle Cottle |Vishakha Darbha

Three Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America. In this episode of "The Opinions," the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of "toxic empathy" and how the right has turned compassion into weakness. Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right NowThree Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America.
Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill Is the Same Old Republican Gruel

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

It's 1981. A Republican president and his allies in Congress are promising large, broad tax cuts that will benefit the middle class and strengthen the economy. It's 2001. A Republican president is promising broad tax cuts that will benefit the middle class and strengthen the economy. It's 2003. That same president is promising another round of broad tax cuts that will benefit the middle class and strengthen the economy. It's 2017.
Trump Is Waging War on the Future

2 weeks ago | myheraldreview.com | Jamelle Bouie

It’s fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward-looking “Make America Great Again” — and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind — is waging war on the American future. This war has four theaters of conflict. In the first, Trump is waging war on constitutional government, with a full-spectrum attack on the idea of the United States as a nation of laws and not men.
Opinion: Trump is waging war on the future

2 weeks ago | timesfreepress.com | Jamelle Bouie

It's fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward-looking "Make America Great Again" -- and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind -- is waging war on the American future. This war has four theaters of conflict. In the first, Trump is waging war on constitutional government, with a full-spectrum attack on the idea of the United States as a nation of laws and not men.
Trump Is Waging War on the Future

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie

It's fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward looking "Make America Great Again" - and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind - is waging war on the American future. This war has four theaters of conflict. In the first, Trump is waging war on constitutional government, with a full spectrum attack on the idea of the United States as a nation of laws and not men.
Opinion: They were waiting for Trump all along

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jamelle Bouie

Share Of the endless torrent of illegal, unconstitutional — and anticonstitutional — actions flowing from the Trump administration, there are three that stand out for their contempt for the rule of law.There is the president’s ongoing assault on the right to due process, seen in his administration’s refusal to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was arrested in Baltimore in March and removed to a prison in El Salvador.
They were waiting for Trump all along

2 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Jamelle Bouie

Of the endless torrent of illegal, unconstitutional - and anti-constitutional - actions flowing from the Trump administration, there are three that stand out for their contempt for the rule of law. There is President Donald Trump's ongoing assault on the right to due process, seen in his administration's refusal to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was arrested in Baltimore in March and removed to a prison in El Salvador.