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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Trump’s explicit threats against the Bidens, and his first-term record of trying to politicize the Justice Department and FBI, almost justify an unpardonable pardon.
Mitch McConnell is giving up one leadership role in the Senate for another — head of the Republican resistance should President-elect Donald Trump overreach.
Elon Musk’s promise to cut ‘at least’ $2 trillion in spending is laughable, because the entire discretionary budget is only $1.9 trillion.
More than two weeks into Trump’s transition, we know what he wants Musk to do come January, but Vance, the supposed future of MAGA, not so much.
President-elect Donald Trump has flooded the zone with provocative Cabinet nominees. Will a new Republican-majority Senate advise and consent?
Donald Trump will steal Joe Biden’s bragging rights on the economy and landmark infrastructure legislation. Too bad. For Democrats, it’s all about what comes next.
Donald Trump will meet little resistance from the branches of government he shaped starting in 2017.
Once upon a time, it was possible to believe Donald Trump would set aside rancor and lies and be a president for us all. Now, God help us.
Kamala Harris could win because women can’t stomach a candidate that wants to grope, assault and ‘protect’ them ‘whether they like it or not.’