Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

Matt Bai and the Wonders of Google.

In his latest New York Times piece on President Obama's unpopularity, Matt Bai continues to ignore the fact that there is an economy, and it isn't very good:

In proposing an economic package this week that includes spending $50 billion on roads, rail lines and other projects, President Obama opened the fall election season by doing what he has done from the first days of his administration: arguing that, in effect, stimulating the economy today and reordering it for decades to come are basically the same thing.

Against the Traveling Mayor.

Riffing off of the news that longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M.

One Faction Among Many.

For those of us on the train for Senate reform, Elizabeth Drew's Politico piece is worth reading, as she offers a very strong -- and very convincing -- defense of the chamber's status quo. The short of her argument is that reformers are vastly overstating the extent to which the body is paralyzed or "dysfunctional"; by and large, Drew argues, this Senate has "essentially met all of the president's major goals," including one of the most significant public-policy "breakthroughs" in a generation. Yes, the Senate hasn't moved on climate change and immigration, but as Drew notes, those are issues where there is significant disagreement within the Democratic caucus.

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