The president’s act of clemency was less about mercy than self-interest.

Nearly a year after commanding the D.C. National Guard during the January 6 insurrection, Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker is helping ensure that the Capitol will never be attacked again.

The White House has commuted the sentences of dozens of inmates in federal prisons.

Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

Republicans are arguing that going after him will do irreversible damage to American democracy. Don’t believe them.

A returning president who expects to govern without constraints leaves his opponents hoping to benefit from the blowback.