Trump-Biden Transition

How one politician devoted his fight for democracy to his lost son.

The residence staff, many of whom have worked there for decades, balance their service of the First Family with their long-term loyalty to the house itself.

Calling themselves the Three Amigos, a self-appointed legal SWAT team of former Solicitors General ran through all the Doomsday scenarios they could think of—except armed insurrection at the Capitol.

The Republican Party isn’t ready to walk away from the former President, but the senators know how close the country came to catastrophe.

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the significance of impeachment.

RonNell Andersen Jones, a law professor at the University of Utah, can’t update the curriculum for her First Amendment seminar fast enough.

Cords plugged back into phones in Oval Office; “World’s No. 1 President” crystal goblets gone; basement portal to Hell caulked over.

Given the importance of condemning Trump’s destructive actions, the message sent by an acquittal may be worse than no trial.

John Sullivan claims that he was at the Capitol insurrection as a neutral journalist. Others say he was a riot chaser who urged the mob to “burn this shit down.”

Despite the gravity of the challenges ahead, President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris are setting out with some distinct advantages.

After the Capitol assault—and after losing his perch as Majority Leader—the senator finally denounced the outgoing President. Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest?

In Washington, D.C., our leaders sealed themselves off from a rebel force that didn’t arrive.

Biden is the kind of flexible, independent-minded Catholic whom many bishops have spent their careers taking to task—and many progressive Catholics see as akin to themselves.

“Trump op-eds on the right, tell-alls on the left, and cartoons in the middle.”

In launching his Presidency around the pursuit of unity, Biden will immediately face the hard political calculations of making it concrete.

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.

The President has almost certainly settled one of this country’s greatest environmental battles, but he will also get to help decide the fates of two other critical fossil-fuel projects.

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.

The Republican officials who usually act as extras at his rallies were attending the swearing in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the Capitol, where the real party was happening.

“But while democracy can be periodically delayed / it can never be permanently defeated.”