Jackie Calmes
Los Angeles Times
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Jackie:
Opinion: Why Hunter Biden's problems are legitimately his dad's problems too
It's unfair that Biden and Trump are neck and neck in the polls. But it's not unfair that the president is taking a hit with voters because of Hunter Biden's troubles. → Read More
Opinion: Watch as Kevin McCarthy puts on 'impeachment theater' while the government teeters
Remember when the House speaker valiantly compromised with President Biden on the debt ceiling and averted a government shutdown? He started backtracking almost immediately. → Read More
Opinion: Why are we stuck with Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court justice who doesn't follow the law?
How hard could it be for Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving Supreme Court justice, to figure out how to follow financial disclosure law? → Read More
Opinion: On abortion, guns and Trump, the GOP has a death wish
The GOP puts its future, and our democracy's, at risk by doubling down on forced pregnancy, book bans, guns and other policies unpopular outside its narrow base. → Read More
Congress is 'not going to fix' gun violence? Republicans won't even try
America's assault weapons ban, in effect from 1994 to 2004, shows that such a law enacted now would mean many fewer Nashvilles in the future. → Read More
Column: As a Trump indictment looms, Republicans are throwing the rule of law under the bus
When the former president posted he was going to be arrested, Kevin McCarthy began flexing House power to interfere on Trump's behalf. → Read More
The right wing found the perfect judge to ban a safe, effective abortion pill
Antiabortion groups 'forum shopped' for a Trump judge likely to block medication abortion nationwide → Read More
Why America can't put a dent in its $31-trillion debt
Don't blame Biden for a lack of fiscal leadership. Until Republicans drop their opposition to new taxes, neither Medicare nor Social Security should be cut. → Read More
What we should do about Marjorie Taylor Greene
Greene leverages power through her 'own the libs' antics. Let's give her what she deserves — as little attention as possible. → Read More
Ukraine will test whether Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and the GOP give in to America First isolationism
The GOP doesn't know if it's isolationist or internationalist. Joe Biden and the Ukraine war forces candidates and congressmembers to decide. → Read More
Nikki Haley doesn't have what it takes to change Trump's Republican Party
It's the same old Trumpism when 'new generation' Republican politicians won't explicitly disavow the former president. → Read More
Column: On the debt-ceiling crisis, take it from moderate Republicans: Be afraid, be very afraid
We (barely) survived past GOP-induced default crises. This time, the most radical, least-seasoned House Republicans could force a looming economic cataclysm. → Read More
Column: Will 19 dead in California alter the balance between your right to a gun and my right to live?
Since the Reagan era, courts and politicians have allowed personal liberty to overshadow the common good on guns and the 2nd Amendment. → Read More
Calmes: Under Kevin McCarthy, disturbing characters like Marjorie Taylor Greene run the House
The House has no leader, just one unmoored individual handing out committee assignments to even wilder fringe figures. → Read More
Calmes: McCarthy and GOP majority aren't fiscal conservatives
House Republicans talk tough on the deficit, but their new rules allow for the same old GOP fiscal fakery and a flood of red ink. → Read More
Calmes: McCarthy and the GOP have only themselves to blame for their humiliation
Twenty zealots — the product of a generation of GOP radicalism and dysfunction — held Congress, the Republican Party and the nation hostage this week. → Read More
Calmes: Kevin McCarthy would do anything to be House speaker. That's the problem
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy has no business in Congress’ highest office or the presidential line of succession. → Read More
Calmes: Nancy Pelosi's indelible mark
Nancy Pelosi didn't intend to run for office, let alone become the first female speaker of the House. But it was time. → Read More
Calmes: The GOP just keeps stoking the 'clear and present danger' of Jan. 6
The Jan. 6 committee findings will be as relevant looking ahead to the 2024 election as they are to the insurrection itself. → Read More
Column: Warnock won and Walker lost because voters judged on character
Political tribalism wasn't defeated in the midterm elections, but in many races, including the Georgia runoff, it met its match in flawed candidates. → Read More