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Jackie Calmes

www.latimes.com
13
articles (90 days)

Recent articles

Calmes: The nonsense of deporting immigrants who came legally and do much-needed work
The U.S. is losing millions of essential workers as President Trump enacts his campaign's stupidest ideas.
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Calmes: Trump is still playing a reality-TV role
Rarely has the president's recasting of reality to fit his chosen narrative been so evident on varied fronts — and so grotesque — as in recent days.
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Calmes: Trump's undermining of U.S. elections is not a simple partisan issue
The president's dud of a prime-time speech, during which he baselessly called U.S. elections "catastrophically short" of being safe, only confirmed many people's fears.
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Calmes: Send Trump a message that the ICE killings have consequences
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) could block confirmation of the president's personal lawyer to be the next attorney general.
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Calmes: Trump decries 'communism' while his government takes ownership of companies
As former Republicans recently said, 'Trump is the closest we've ever come to communism.'
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Calmes: The Supreme Court failed the test posed by Trump
The conservative justices seem willfully obtuse about this executive's autocratic impulses.
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Calmes: Don't let Trump empower Todd Blanche, his modern-day Roy Cohn
Trump has created a small caucus of Republicans who feel they no longer owe him anything. Those lawmakers could block the president's attorney general nominee.
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Calmes: In the land of immigrants, Trump's refugee policy is overt racism
The administration has ushered in an overtly racist refugee policy. Our country should be better than this.
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Calmes: Trump is stealing Americans' faith in elections
The U.S.'s election systems are secure and fair, but that's harder for many to believe after a decade of lies from the president.
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Calmes: As we approach July 4, the capital is, fittingly, a mess
The adulatory banners and ego-driven construction projects hardly send the message appropriate for a people who renounced a king.
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Calmes: Enough navel-gazing, Democrats. Focus on the future
The party's advantage in these midterm elections is entirely thanks to Trump's and Republicans' own unpopularity.
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Calmes: Obama's strong terms curbed Iran. Trump struggles to secure even a weak deal
Since 2018, the president's actions have allowed Iran to rebuild its nuclear program. Now he is in a quagmire of his own creation.
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Calmes: Trump surrendered to China before he even landed there
The president has humiliated himself by sacrificing the U.S. economy and U.S. military readiness, handing victories to our geopolitical rival.
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