Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.
Activists want to see their opposition party do some actual opposing.
Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.
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Trump’s pardons were shocking to some, but to me they were eerily familiar—straight out of the kleptocratic playbook I’ve studied in a dozen other countries.
If pardoning Hunter Biden was politically improper or reputationally risky, it was also done in accordance with the higher and fiercer laws of familial love.
America is in the middle of a decade of dangerous instability.
If Congress won’t stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from arrogating its power over federal spending, who will?
Trump’s pardons sent an unmistakable message, capping the corruption of his tenure in office.
The president’s lawyers are looking at multiple ways to undermine or curtail the Russia inquiry, including his issuing pardons.