With just minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has made a series of stunning clemency decisions.

Donald Trump is promising to start his new term by throwing accountability out the window.

When Democrats are in power, there are unending demands for unity and bipartisanship from the media. Their deafening admonitions will fall silent after Trump is inaugurated.

After years of touting the need to preserve democracy and the rule of law, the outgoing president concludes his reign in the most cynical way imaginable.

Every president has thought about how history would judge him. Forty-five has more immediate concerns.

Thousands of incarcerated people went home early thanks to a Covid relief program. Why would the Biden administration send them back to prison?

The president goes out on a seamy and haphazard note, pardoning those who did crimes on his behalf.

Donald Trump is taking lame-duck pardons to obscene new levels, but he had a boost from his predecessors.

The president showered mercy on a rogues’ gallery led by disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.

What Conrad Black’s pardon reveals about the president's crimes.

Trump absolved a former soldier who was convicted of murdering an Iraqi man. It's not the only time the president was swayed by Fox News.

By implicitly promising to pardon his allies, Trump may have prevented Robert Mueller from uncovering irrefutable evidence of collusion.

Rod Blagojevich is trying to pull a fast one on Trump to get pardoned—and it might work, given the president's recent history.

How the president is using his executive power to protect himself.

It's an elegant way out of the leak controversies