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Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader who was freed from prison after receiving clemency from President Donald Trump, arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami on Jan. 22, 2025. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s pardons must not lead to the unpardonable

March 9, 2025 at 12:02 p.m.

Hindsight, as the old saying goes, is always 20/20. That thought came to mind after a couple of the roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders given pardons and commutations by President...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, days before a wreath laying ceremony to honor the civil rights leader on the anniversary of his birthday, Jan. 12, 2024. (Samuel Corum/Getty)

Clarence Page: Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream still offers a great agenda

March 9, 2025 at 12:02 p.m.

As we are about to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, I am reminded of a famous...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks with former President Barack Obama as Melania Trump looks on during the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Clarence Page: Jimmy Carter’s funeral brought a rare and much-needed vision of peace

March 9, 2025 at 12:02 p.m.

Former President Jimmy Carter was remembered as “something of a miracle.”

Vivek Ramaswamy appears while Donald Trump makes a campaign stop at Racine Festival Park on June 18, 2024, in Wisconsin. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Clarence Page: MAGA takes on Elon Musk’s ‘tech bros’ and their need for immigrant labor

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

The tech oligarchs who played a decisive role in Donald Trump's reelection want immigrant labor for the tech sector. MAGA supporters are not pleased.

Central Christian Church congregants stand to applaud members of the Haitian community during a Sunday service in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 15, 2024. (Jessie Wardarski/AP)

Clarence Page: Behind the ‘Lie of the Year’ about Haitian immigrants are some bitter truths

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

Donald Trump's victory has much to do with the immigration issue. In the spin of the Trump campaign, it was an edifice built on some truths but also outright lies.

President-elect Donald Trump is on hand to watch SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lift off for a test flight with Elon Musk from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty)

Clarence Page: Elon Musk takes on Washington, but can he take it over?

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

Neither Elon Musk nor Donald Trump has had any real guidance to offer lawmakers on how to write a bill that would keep the government running.

Kash Patel, center, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, appears following a meeting with Sen. Ted Cruz on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 12, 2024. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Kash Patel and his ‘bureau of intimidation’

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

Donald Trump political loyalist Kash Patel, nominated to head the FBI, conjures memories of J. Edgar Hoover.

President Joe Biden and son Hunter attend the 2024 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 1, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

Clarence Page: Why didn’t Joe Biden keep his promise?

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

Fathers should help their sons and a pardon can be justice.

A person sits next to a cardboard cutout of Vice President Kamala Harris, the day after an election night event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2024. The nationwide repudiation of the party stunned many Democrats, but as they sifted through the wreckage of their defeats, they found no easy answers as to why voters so decisively rejected their candidates. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)

Clarence Page: Democrats have work to do to reclaim the mantle of change

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

Democrats are trying to determine if Election Day was a circumstantial setback or the unfolding of a potentially long-term disaster.

President-elect Donald Trump's former nominee to be attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., closes a door to a private meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members, at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 20, 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s Cabinet of the mediocre invites possible catastrophe

March 9, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

“Kakistocracy” is trending again, very likely in response to Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees.

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