JAMELLE BOUIE

Make use of the constitutional system.

How much credit should he get for doing the bare minimum?

If the tables were turned, Republicans would not hesitate to use every argument, and every tool, at their disposal.

Millions of Democratic voters can see and feel that American politics has changed in profound ways since at least the 1990s.

The spectacle is the message.

There are minorities whose interests are harmed by majority rule. But they are not minorities as we tend to think of them; they are elites.

Conservatives need to explain their logic on gun safety.

The filibuster is only one part of the larger problem of the capture of America’s political institutions by an unrepresentative minority.

Viktor Orban’s Hungary has a lot to offer them.

When they do, they just want to change the rules.