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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Orange County Post, United States District Court/Southern District of New York, Google Earth In 1977, when Eman Soudani was 17 years old, her older brother Moutz invited her to move from Amman, Jordan, where they’d grown up, and live with him in New York. She had one year left in high school, […]

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters One of the biggest applause lines in Donald Trump’s second Inaugural Address was when he pledged, “We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God.” The shout-out to God (whom Trump credited with saving his life from assassination “to make America great again,”

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine Of all the over-the-top celebratory reactions to Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, Elon Musk’s excited speech at Capitol One Arena before Trump showed up to sign executive orders really did stand out. He was jumping up and down, pumping his fist, and agitating his arms as he

Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Many of us were so distracted by Melania’s Inauguration Day hat that we forgot to check in on another Trump making bold headwear choices. But Ivanka Trump did not forget to relaunch her brand as “perfect, apolitical First Daughter.” Though Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, served as White House advisers

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine After Donald Trump’s second inauguration, an exultant mood prevailed among the MAGA faithful — including Elon Musk, who celebrated by seemingly invoking a different, older movement. Photographer Mark Peterson was there for New York capturing the inauguration parade and two of the many celebrity-filled celebrations around Washington on Monday night: the

Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images In trying to sort through and make sense of all the momentous events marking the transition from the 46th presidency to the 47th, it’s tempting to turn the actions of Joe Biden and Donald Trump into matched sets. In some cases, that’s justifiable; Biden reversed quite a few Trump policies by

Photo: Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images It is highly unlikely that Bill Hancock, the longtime executive director of the College Football Playoff, has ever read D.H. Lawrence. But he and the men who have been in charge of college football over the last few decades share a single-minded maxim with the moaning house in Lawrence’s

Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The inauguration and speeches are over, Donald Trump’s January 6 pardons have been issued, and his executive actions are still coming. The fallout and legal pushback have begun as well, and amid the blitz of activity, it might be hard to figure out what’s really going on. Below we’re

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine MAGA celebrations continued on Sunday in Washington, D.C., ahead of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Photographer Mark Peterson was there for New York capturing the Make America Great Again Victory Rally at the Capital One Arena, as well as Turning Point’s Inaugural Eve Ball; a party at the Riggs Hotel sponsored by

Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a “disrupter,” even though he’s the close friend of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world, and has now himself taken power over the executive branch of the federal government even as his allies dominate the legislative and judicial