"While on the outside AI is increasingly doing our writing, creating our images and subverting creativity, on the inside of a prison none of that is happening — and the results can be stunning," Mark ...

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Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.

After months of controversial and norm-busting clemency grants by both the Biden and second Trump administrations, many are calling for the presidential pardon

Two oddly congruent developments are happening in 2026: the “No Kings” rallies, and celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

As norms are shattered, the goals of the clemency project are shifting fast.

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The Trump and Biden administrations established new trends in the use of the pardon power. One of the most striking shifts was both Presidents’ willingness to e

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Legal scholar Mark Osler discusses the justice solution of clemency.

It followed from a direct — and unanticipated — challenge he gave me regarding impact and effective change.

President Biden’s historic one-day clemency act included commutations that sparked outrage, in part because the White House skipped normal vetting procedures.

Biden announced he's commuting the prison sentences of 1,500 people and issuing pardons to 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes.

President Biden announced he's commuting the prison sentences of some 1,500 people and issuing pardons to 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes. That marks the largest number of commutations by a ...

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Biden knows there is a better way to use it—other people’s children also deserve mercy.

A blanket pardon for the president’s son, Hunter Biden, comes amid wider signs that federal justice isn’t immune from the political divisiveness that has gripped America’s public square.

It is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration.

The absolute power of the presidential pardon has once again proven to be at odds with a system of government that depends on checks and balances. What's the history of the pardon? We hear from Mark O...

Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump closed out their presidential terms with a significant number of clemency grants, though the processes adopted by these two presidents differed dramatically. Preside...