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Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump won and very soon he will officially be president again. Today in a suddenly indoor ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Trump will be sworn in as America’s 47th president. After that, he’s vowed to sign as many as hundreds of executive orders before hitting tonight’s inaugural balls. It’s […]

Photo: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images The New Yorkers who decide to tune in to watch Donald Trump be sworn into his second term in the White House might glimpse a familiar face in the crowd. Mayor Eric Adams will be in attendance at the inauguration in Washington, D.C. in another sign of the burgeoning

Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The final hours are counting down before Donald Trump takes the oath of office at his (indoor) inauguration and then retakes office as America’s 47th president. On Sunday, after sort of saving TikTok, he paid a a somber visit to Arlington National Cemetery before his big victory rally at

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine On Saturday in Washington D.C., there was both protest and more partying over Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration. Photographer Mark Peterson was there for New York capturing the People’s March, Hispanic Inaugural Ball, the All American Ball, the Peach Ball, and an inaugural party hosted by tech baron Peter Thiel. Photo:

Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images My last TikTok was a post from @TherapyJeff, real name Jeff Guenther. He described how dispensing free mental health advice via short-form videos had given him courage to face issues in his personal life, provided a new creative outlet, and “brought so much joy into my life.” And

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine David Sacks was beaming on Friday night onstage between the doric columns of the Andrew W. Mellon auditorium. There was a lot to celebrate in this august hall just across the street from the National Mall. Donald Trump is just days away from making America great again and Sacks

Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine The formal celebrations of Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration got underway on Friday night in Washington, D.C. with the pre-inaugural (nonpartisan) Kentucky Bluegrass Ball and the cryptocurrency-happy Crypto Ball. Photographer Mark Peterson was there to capture the events for New York. Photo: Mark Peterson, New York Magazine Photo: Mark

Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Getty Images Presidential farewell addresses aren’t typically the occasion for regrets, and accordingly, Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech this past week was a more traditional mix of boasts over accomplishments and warnings about the crowd moving into the White House on Monday. But reports persist that the 46th president remains convinced

Photo: Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images If anything is likely to appeal to the latent nonpartisan instincts and benevolent feelings of federal policymakers, it’s the sights and sounds of widespread suffering in natural disasters, like the California wildfires. That’s why federal disaster relief, which is triggered by a presidential declaration from funds ultimately controlled by Congress, is

Photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu/Getty Images In one of those why the hell not? gestures open to a president down to his last weekend in office, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and thus the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.A host of feminists and Democratic politicians have been urging this step from the moment