Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Blogger

Jamelle Bouie contributes to The Plum Line blog. He is a staff writer at The American Prospect magazine, a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a blogger for The Nation magazine.

Latest by Jamelle Bouie

GOP hopes to take Obama "scandals" home to the voters

Can Republicans sell their constituents on the idea of presidential wrongdoing?

Calling conservatives' bluff on immigration reform

They claim their objection to immigration reform is about cost, but it's actually rooted in their opposition to facilitating immigration to the United States.

Can Tea Party conservatives kill immigration reform?

The right launches a new effort to sink the immigration compromise.

GOP's goal isn't deficit reduction. It's gutting the safety net.

The deficit is already falling, yet Republicans continue to insist on still more cuts -- to entitlements, their real target all along.