Category: Politics

Trump’s final clemency list reinforces the idea that his objection was not to the Russia probe, but to accountability.

As President Biden and Vice President Harris took their oaths of office, African Americans held hope for change.

Biden to Hoover to Johnson to Adams.

Trump’s farewell address was like a mini version of campaign rally — lots of falsehoods but no applause.

President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the nation’s 46th president on Wednesday at an inauguration like no other.

A president’s pardon needs very little to take effect.

We have been at war with our own democracy. But we haven’t yet managed to topple our own moral code.

Sidelined by a pandemic and an attempted insurrection, millions of Biden-Harris supporters reluctantly prepare for Jan. 20 at home.

The Post offered an indispensable look at just how much Trump the candidate promised he would do as president — 282 items, to be exact. Now that his presidency is ending, we account for those.

According to three people briefed on the plan, Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection for six months to his adult children and their families, who were not automatically entitled to receive it.

To a seasoned viewer, this Inauguration Day was ‘a study in the ambivalence, slipperiness and resilience of our primal symbols of democracy.’

The same pathologies that abetted President Trump’s political rise, animated his followers and became hallmarks of his turbulent single term have now, in the twilight of his presidency, left him politically damaged.