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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

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo:Getty Images After weeks of highly complex negotiations involving Hamas, Israel, the outgoing Biden administration, the incoming Trump administration, and several Middle Eastern countries, stage one of the ceasefire in Gaza took effect this week. Hamas freed three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners, with more to come over the next

Photo: Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Redux It can be difficult to comprehend Donald Trump in his totality — how he has both bent history to his will and failed to do the kind of damage the left always imagines is imminent. He has dominated our politics now for almost a full decade, casting a shadow

Photo: Shawn Thew/Getty Images Some months before Inauguration Day, JD Vance appeared at the Republican National Convention and said his party was finished “catering to Wall Street.” He added, “We’ll commit to the working man.” When he became vice president on Monday, the “working man” was not much in evidence. Tech moguls, including Elon Musk

Photo: Kenny Holston/AFP/Getty Images It is customary for human beings inheriting enormous power over others to show a bit of humility before exercising it. This is why presidential inaugurations include ritualistic invocations of national traditions, hallowed precedents, and divine favor. Those staging the second inauguration of Donald Trump did their best to surround the man

Photo: Morry Gash/Pool/AFP/Getty Images For weeks, dispirited Democrats have tried to will Donald Trump into being something resembling a normal Republican president. He was greeted warmly at Jimmy Carter’s funeral by Barack Obama, welcomed into the White House on his inauguration morning by Joe Biden, while Democrats who boycotted his swearing-in eight years ago dutifully

Photo: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press/Alamy Stock Photo Awaiting Trump’s return to office, the cryptocurrency industry was thrilled by the president’s promises to provide clear-cut regulatory guidelines that would help the sector grow while easing the volatility it’s become notorious for. Industry-friendly bankers ready to catch the rush of capital coming in from offshore accounts are hopeful

SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP One of the biggest consequences of Donald Trump getting a sad, indoors inauguration due to the cold weather in Washington today is that space is extremely limited. The swearing-in ceremony is taking place in the Capitol Rotunda, which is only 7,000 square feet and can fit only around 750

Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images All of Melania Trump’s recent actions — from releasing a memoir to doing chatty Fox News interviews to filming an Amazon documentary — seem to say, I actually love being First Lady, so let’s not talk about how I’ve been “missing” for the past two years. Yet weirdly, the