Presidential Inauguration
The Political Scene Podcast
Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration
The young poet’s reading at President Biden’s swearing-in made her about as famous as a poet can be. She talks with Kevin Young about writing a new book once the stakes were much higher.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration
The young poet’s reading at President Biden’s Inauguration made her about as famous as a poet can be. She talks with Kevin Young about writing a new book once the stakes were much higher.
The Political Scene
The Week the Trump Supporters Disappeared
In Washington, D.C., our leaders sealed themselves off from a rebel force that didn’t arrive.
Daily Comment
“A Broken Land”: Biden and the True Costs of Unity
In launching his Presidency around the pursuit of unity, Biden will immediately face the hard political calculations of making it concrete.
On and Off the Avenue
Jewel Tones and Bernie Sanders’s Mittens: Inauguration Day Fashion 2021
There was a collaborative choreography to the day’s aesthetic, with outfits that communicated President Joe Biden’s message of unity. And then there was the senator from Vermont, an anti-fashion icon.
Cultural Comment
The Best Inaugural Music Moments
Music is sometimes presented as a kind of impartial panacea. That’s a lot to ask of art, but it’s still a nice fantasy to indulge.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Joe Biden’s Love Letter to the Truth
The new President tried something different: levelling with the American people.
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Obituary for a Failed Presidency
In the end, Donald Trump was everything his haters feared—a chaos candidate who became a chaos President.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Anatomy of an Inaugural
From The New Yorker’s archive: stories about Presidential Inaugurations and Inaugural Addresses.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Obama Cruelly Taunted Trump in Letter Riddled with Multisyllabic Words
Sources said Obama packed the letter with words such as “reflections,” “adventure,” and “ladders,” in order to bewilder and infuriate Trump.
Sarah Larson
Today, We March
Culture Desk
Inaugural Fashion: White Is a Color of Mourning
Our Columnists
A Dark Inaugural
Shouts & Murmurs
Welcome to the White House
Satire from The Borowitz Report
More Than Three Hundred Million Americans Now Enrolled in Trump University
“Congratulations,” the President of Trump University told the new students. “For the next four years, you are all in Trump University.”
Cultural Comment
What Can Artists Accomplish by Saying No to Trump?
Photo Booth
Scenes from Trump’s Inaugural Weekend
News Desk