Jaime Stiehm: FBI director won’t let democracy be
James B. Comey, the FBI director, is above it all.
Jaime Stiehm: The last debate showed us who they are
American democracy is meant to be messy, not ugly.
Jaime Stiehm: Notes from a jumpy one-horse town
Whoa, Nellie! This one-horse town is as jumpy and jittery as I’ve ever seen it.
Jaime Stiehm: The confident Midwestern girl
As we know from prairie pioneer diaries, hardy Midwestern women could not get faint on a summer day.
Jaime Stiehm: The summer of our discontent
Now is the summer of our discontent, Shakespeare might say, with none to make it glorious.
Jaime Stiehm: House members sit to move America
Something’s happening here in the People’s House. What’s going down seems exactly clear: a stage of our democracy, men and women players speaking unscripted lines that could wait no more.
Jaime Stiehm: More than a moment of silence: a late-night show
The best show in town is making a comeback. Annie, get your gun, an old-fashioned filibuster is happening on the Senate floor.
Jaime Stiehm: Trump a long-lost, not-so-great nephew to Jackson
Andrew Jackson, anyone? How about a new Trail of Tears? Let’s go back to the 1830s, unruly times that tried our souls. Mob rage and violence rose to a peak, anger spilling over Southern slavery.