Jackie Calmes: Sen. Menendez is getting the push out of public service he deserves
To all the ways that Americans have traditionally distinguished between the nation s two major parties, mostly on policy grounds such as taxes and social issues, add another: ethics. Republicans condo
Kevin McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry proves there’s only one political party of revenge — the GOP
It was nearly 80 years from Congress creation to the first impeachment of a president, Andrew Johnson in 1868, and 130 years more until the second, Bill Clinton in 1998, both of them Democrats impeac
Jackie Calmes: Hunter Biden’s problems are legitimately his dad’s problems too
There is much that seems unfair in President Joe Biden s chronically anemic poll ratings. Like his low marks for economic stewardship despite presiding over a robust recovery from the pandemic. The fa
Jackie Calmes: Bidenomics just had its first birthday. Why are so few people celebrating?
Bidenomics just had its first birthday, and less than half the country celebrated. The president has to hope that changes by the policy s second birthday next August, just weeks before the 2024 electi
Jackie Calmes: Trump says he’s the victim of ‘two-tier’ system of law. In fact, he’s its beneficiary
With Congress on its summer recess, we ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a victim of a two-tier system of justice one that goes after him and
Jackie Calmes: Republican racism has finally weaponized Kamala Harris
Republicans are doing their damnedest to make Vice President Kamala Harris a liability for President Joe Biden s reelection, not without plenty of help from her over time.
Jackie Calmes: The Supreme Court’s just-ended term contained some surprising gifts for Democrats
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right
Jackie Calmes: Why are we stuck with a Supreme Court justice who doesn’t follow the law?
No sooner had Donald Trump finally been fingerprinted and booked than we Americans were reminded of that other V.I.P. scofflaw who, by his repeat offenses, has long mocked our national conceit that no
Jackie Calmes: What Marjorie Taylor Greene still deserves
They didn t listen to me over at CBS, not that I m surprised.
Jackie Calmes: Kevin McCarthy would do anything to be House speaker. That’s the problem
Leave aside the opposition to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy from a few right-wing lawmakers whom even far-right pundit Mark Levin calls boneheads.
Jackie Calmes: Clarence Thomas’ Jan. 6 conflicts of interest are showing again
Amid all the attention recently to Trumpty Dumpty s do-over presidential candidacy, the midterm elections and Speaker Nancy Pelosi s semi-farewell, one bit of Washington news was overshadowed but sh
Jackie Calmes: The biggest losers — the GOP and Donald Trump
What a well-deserved irony: For a party that all but certainly will win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party is the big loser of the 2022 midterm elections, second only t
Jackie Calmes: Ron DeSantis proves that cruetly is a Republican trait
Florida s governor has been dubbed Donald Trump with brains so often by other Republicans, and the journalists who quote them, that he might as well be identified as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Brains). Bu
Jackie Calmes: The Jan. 6 committee did the country proud but it hasn’t changed our calcified politics
Senate Minority Leader Mitch Party over Country McConnell was wrong, again.
Jackie Calmes: Bill Barr is telling the truth about Trump. Too bad it’s too little, too late
Former Attorney General William Barr has been on a tear lately. He s calling out his ex-boss for potential criminality and obstruction amid the evidence that Donald Trump absconded from the White Hous
Jackie Calmes: Will the Republican Party trigger another round of Jan. 6-style violence ?
Wasn t Jan. 6, 2021, proof enough for Rep. My Kevin McCarthy and other Republican officials that words matter?
Jackie Calmes: GOP voters will benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act. Congressional Republicans just don’t care
In a polarized America, you don t get this kind of agreement on much of anything.
Jackie Calmes: Republican ‘pro-life’ advocacy ends with a child’s birth
From red-state capitals to Washington, Republican politicians are conceding what s been obvious for decades: Their pro-life advocacy ends with a child s birth.
Their View: Fearing the worst, hoping for the best: My 2022 predictions for the nation
We can argue whether 2021 was the least bad year of the last two years, as The Daily Show claimed, considering that it began with a bloody insurrection at the Capitol and ended with U.S. COVID-19
Their view: Losses in Virginia should be a warning to Democrats everywhere
Historic trends are very hard to buck. Like the fact that off-year and midterm elections usually go badly for the party that holds the White House. In Virginia, for example, the candidate of the presi