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Jackie Calmes

www.latimes.com
12
articles (90 days)

Recent articles

Calmes: What would Dolly do? Trump should learn from her life and legacy
We say "there will never be another Dolly Parton" with regret. To say the same about Trump is, for many Americans, a relief.
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Calmes: Trump's reputation for corruption is doing Democrats' work for them
The president is campaigning against Republicans by enriching himself while in office.
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Calmes: Hegseth is purging people of color. Trump's war is killing them
Suddenly we have a new measure of how much women and minorities (and immigrants) contribute to protecting America: the casualty toll in Trump's war against Iran.
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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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