Jackie Calmes is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Times in 2017 as White House editor, she worked at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, covering the White House, Congress and national politics. She served as the chief political correspondent and chief economic correspondent at each paper. In 2004, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. Calmes began her career in Texas covering state politics and moved to Washington in 1984 to work for Congressional Quarterly. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She is the author of “Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court.”
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The U.S. president is sworn to uphold the law, but presidential candidate Donald Trump keeps pledging to break it. We should believe him.
May 9, 2024
Don’t let the focus on holding Trump accountable for what he has done cloud your vision on what he will do, if voters give him the chance.
May 5, 2024
Trump’s short list of vice presidential candidates self-disqualify when they second his falsehoods about the 2020 election and Jan. 6.
May 2, 2024
It’s downright disturbing to contemplate the similarities between the Donald’s hush money trial and that of an organized crime don.
April 28, 2024
Suddenly, Democrats and (some) Republicans in the House have joined in unorthodox bipartisanship to get government functioning again.
April 25, 2024
The spectacular failures of House Republican attempts to humiliate Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are a win for the Constitution.
April 21, 2024
The goings-on inside and outside Manhattan criminal court won’t win the scowling, puffy-faced former president the voters he needs.
April 17, 2024
One after another, American institutions have spinelessly bowed to Trump’s power. The latest GOP invertebrates run a foundation meant to honor President Gerald R. Ford.
April 14, 2024
Donald Trump says the world disrespects Biden, but he’s projecting his own deep unpopularity onto the president.
April 11, 2024
U.S. policy now hinges on ‘concrete steps’ from Netanyahu in Gaza. Will Biden match his demands with actions and finally put conditions on America’s military support for Israel?
April 5, 2024