Joe Biden Inauguration

Images of the Week: The ravages of time showed on celebrities performing after the Biden inauguration. And while you can’t blame Trump, he sure didn’t help matters

These are the style standouts from yesterday’s events, as chosen by FASHION magazine

Gerald Butts: The president delivered a great speech in a time of profound national need. If he follows it with disciplined action, it just might become iconic.

Paul Wells: Biden offered Americans not so much a program or a faction, but mostly just his person—and he now has multiple crises to tackle

Inauguration images: Organizers went a long way to ensure social distancing, and most of the hugs occurred within families. But some attendees got caught up in the moment.

Scott Gilmore: America’s contradictions and the efforts to solve them have always defined the country and its history. The impossible nation will beat on.

The president has set a daunting goal of healing the country, but there were countless signs of hope and unity—not least all those jaunty masks

Joe Biden invoked themes of unity and the importance of truth in his first speech as President of the United States. Read the full transcript here.

Amanda Gorman—at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history—delivered her poem at the U.S. Capitol

Patricia Treble: ‘If there is anyone who understands the suffering in the United States, it is Biden, a man forged by the crucible of heartache’ 

Debra Thompson: In many ways, Harris is the embodiment of white conservatives’ fear that the country is on the precipice of irreversible demographic and political changes

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