Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

Recent Articles

When Racial Slurs are the Least Racist Thing About Your Rant, It's a Pretty Racist Rant.

A few days ago, Dr. Laura Schlessinger -- who still seems to have a radio show -- took a call from a distressed listener. The caller -- a black woman -- is in an interracial marriage with a white man, and is increasingly frustrated with the racist jokes and comments made by her husband's friends and family. Here's the audio, from Media Matters, of the initial exchange:

Life in a Cage.

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As Erik Eckholm reports in The New York Times, animal-welfare activists in Ohio have made real headway in a campaign to sharply restrict the close confinement of hens, hogs and other livestock:

Immigrant Babies.

According to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center, an estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the children of undocumented immigrants:

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Things That Matter in Politics.

Not to sound too curmudgeonly, but while yesterday's primaries in Connecticut, Colorado, and Georgia were interesting as pieces of political theater, on the main they don't actually tell us anything about the elections ahead of us. The political world will spend today obsessing over what those elections "meant," but when it comes down to it, you can't divine broader trends from a handful of contests in a few unrepresentative states. So, for example, Sen. Michael Bennet's win last night in Colorado doesn't actually say anything about the mood of this year's average voter, despite what The New York Times might try to tell you.

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