Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie (born April 12th, 1987) is an American journalist and columnist for The New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Bouie is "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era." 2Life and career Bouie was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009. He currently lives in the Washington D.C. area. Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship in 2010 for the magazine The American Prospect. Then in 2012 he was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by the print magazine The Nation. In 2013 Bouie became a staff writer for The Daily Beast, an online magazine, writing about national politics. In 2014, he moved to Slate Magazine as a Chief Political Correspondent. In 2019, he joined the New York Times as a columnist.In 2013 Bouie was a contributor to Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics, a book about the 2012 presidential election edited by political scientist Larry Sabat