Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions

The former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.

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Trump Battles Universities, but Especially Harvard and the Ivy League

Beyond the politics is a brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never accepted him.

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Trump’s Frustration With Generals Resulted in an Unconventional Pick

Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star Air Force officer, quickly moved up the list of candidates to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Trump’s Firing of Gen. Charles Q. Brown May Have Roots in George Floyd Protests

A four-minute video appears to have been a turning point for the president and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the ousted Joint Chiefs chairman.

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Trump Pulls the Military Back Into the Political and Culture Wars

The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.

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Portrait of General Milley Is Removed From Pentagon

The decision was an early salvo by the new administration against a military that President Trump has assailed for a variety of perceived offenses.

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Biden in Final Hours Pardons Cheney, Fauci and Milley to Thwart Reprisals

Acting on the day he leaves office, President Biden used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted by his incoming successor, Donald J. Trump, who has vowed “retribution.”

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