Jamelle Bouie

I thought Atrios had the right take on Tom Friedman‘s latest, “Tom Friedman wants a third party with no constituency to enact his preferred agenda. [I] have only seen that column written 3 trillion times before:” There is a revolution brewing in the country, and it is not just on the right wing but in […]

I thought Paul Campos had a fine response to Rick Sanchez‘s self-pitying rant about himself, CNN and the Jews: Look Rick, in America in 2010 you and me are basically white guys — just like Jon Stewart. Now I’m not doubting that somebody somewhere has said or done something nasty to you because of your […]

Leslie Sanchez, author of Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other, sees this year as a sign that the GOP is becoming more diverse: Overall, 14 African-Americans across the country are running as GOP nominees for Congress. As the Frederick Douglass Foundation has pointed out, if just three of them win, it would […]

Color me unsurprised: Researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found that nearly 40 percent of calories consumed by children ages 2 to 18 were empty calories, the unhealthiest kind of calories. Half of these calories came from just six foods: Soda […]

In August, when Linda McMahon won the Republican primary for Senate in Connecticut, she trailed Attorney General Richard Blumenthal by ten points. By early September, that shrank to a six points, and now — with the election thirty days away — McMahon has narrowed the gap to three points. Blumenthal is still the favorite, but […]

To riff off of Tim‘s post a little, I think it’s fine for taxpayers to receive a receipt of sorts, to see where there taxpayers are going. But pace Third Way, I don’t think this would have a meaningful impact on the public’s understanding of the federal budget; to borrow an analogy Ezra Klein made […]

( The White House ) As part of the White House’s new “White Board,” Austan Goolsbee — Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors — explains President Obama‘s plan middle-class for tax cuts, and shows how the high-income tax cuts would affect the deficit. — Jamelle Bouie

(Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times) So, this blog post/slideshow — “8 Reasons to Date a White Man” — is obviously silly and reductive; to say that black men “glamorize ignorance” or that white men “have a firmer grasp on what really defines manhood” is to announce — for the crowd — that you own […]

Obviously, as a consultant, it’s John Anzalone job to boost the Democratic Party’s fortunes. Still, this is actually a true thing: Where did this Washington myth come from that Barack Obama does not connect with regular voters? Is everyone’s memory so short that they don’t remember the 2008 elections and the crowds of literally tens […]

On Monday, President Obama endorsed the idea of a longer school year: “I think we should have longer school years,” Obama said on NBC’s “Today” show during a special forum on education. “We now have our kids go to school about a month less than other advanced countries. And that month makes a difference.” Longer […]