Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour preemptive pardons for his family and Trump critics are raising further questions about the use of presidential pardons.

President’s speech previews what he hopes will be a muscular second term unimpeded by precedent, unimpressed by the niceties ...

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A year ago, a survey of presidential scholars put him in the top third of chief executives while Trump ranked last. But that ...

The president's record-shattering clemency actions help ameliorate the damage caused by the draconian drug policies he ...

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era.

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political ...

Joe Biden was 26 then, fresh out of law school with the Delaware bar exam behind him, and a Michel Legrand song began playing ...