Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for the New York Times and former political analyst for CBS News, covers U.S. politics, public policy, race, and elections—including the unprecedented upcoming 2024 U.S. elections.
Jamelle’s political instincts provide audiences with unique insight on the past, present, and future of our national politics, policy, and the state of race relations. As he did while writing for Slate and the Daily Beast, Jamelle shares eye-opening perspectives on issues concerning the issues at play in America today.
Jamelle Bouie appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TIME, and The New Yorker. Jamelle uses his unique perspective to take audiences to the front lines of the nation’s most significant news events, from civil unrest to political partisanship. He has emerged as a leading voice on the national scene, being named to Forbes “30 Under 30 in Media” in 2015.
Jamelle stimulates provocative, much-needed thinking on critical national affairs issues. He helps audiences analyze current events through the lens of human history and in the age of social media. He deftly illustrates how the past reveals itself in the present, and how policy-makers, citizen activists and cultural influencers can seize the power of information to make a difference.
- What’s the matter with American Democracy?
- The missing ingredient in American democracy is political equality, the idea that all citizens are of equal weight, even if they aren't of equal voice. It's not just that political equality is essential if Americans ever hope to realize the potential of their democracy, but that the absence of political equality from our institutions is part of what has warped our political system into something which struggles to express our democratic values.
- The Civil Rights Movement Today: A Second Redemption?
- Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement won its biggest victory—the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Three years later, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, it won a second major bill—the Fair Housing Act. From the perspective of then, the future looked bright for black Americans. And to an extent, it was. For the first time, America saw a large and vibrant black middle class. Black professionals rose through the ranks and black politicians won office. We elected a black president. But each step for progress brought a backlash, from limits on affirmative action policies to a slow eroding of key civil rights laws, culminating in the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby v. Holder, gutting a key section of the VRA. The last expansion of civil rights before the 1960s, Reconstruction, also saw a backlash, called Redemption. And the shape of that backlash is similar to the one we have now. Is the present period a second Redemption? And what does that mean for our future?
- The Life of the Nation: How Segregation is Threatening American Democracy