Jeff Greenfield is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine covering U.S. politics. He’s a five-time Emmy-winning network television analyst and has written multiple books about American politics.

President Donald Trump used his second inaugural address to hold up his indomitability and escape from a would-be assassin’s bullet as a metaphor for a “strong,” “proud” nation that “will not be ...

America's civic rituals are astonishingly spare. The inauguration of a president is a short ceremony, constructed around a simple oath prescribed by the U.S. Constitution, and followed by a speech. To ...

President Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second term Monday, and his inaugural address covered the familiar ground of his campaign rally speeches.

Donald John Trump was inaugurated as president Monday for the second time in eight years. And again, we were all glued to his speech for clues about what lay ahead. Trump has often talked ...