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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America declared independence from kings 248 years ago. The right-wing Supreme Court majority undid it.
July 4, 2024
Americans nationwide — Democrats mostly, but small-d democrats, too — bewailed new court decisions and suffered from debate shock.
June 30, 2024
Joe Biden beats Donald Trump hands down on the budget and the economy. Will the debate deliver the message?
June 27, 2024
It’s our civic duty to pay attention when presidential candidates go head to head, but who could blame Americans for not watching the Biden-Trump debate in Atlanta?
June 23, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ‘quiet’ actions in Congress announce how far from the country’s interests Republicans are willing to stray.
June 20, 2024
Everyone’s wondering whom Trump will choose as his vice presidential running mate. They should be asking why anyone would want the job.
June 16, 2024
The partisan ‘stench’ enveloping the Supreme Court is getting more rancid, just in time for its biggest decisions of the year.
June 13, 2024
The subtext of the 80th anniversary commemoration of D-day was insecurity, the unsettling shift toward fascism in the U.S. and Europe.
June 7, 2024
Republicans want you to believe a power-abusing President Biden engineered Trump’s Manhattan conviction, even as Biden’s Justice Department is putting his own son on trial.
June 6, 2024
Would anyone reasonably question the impartiality of Justices Alito and Thomas? Without a doubt.
June 2, 2024