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The Atlantic The Sound of Silence The quiet in the streets of D.C. today was a fitting end to the noisiest political era many Americans can remember. January 20, 2021 Photos of Vice President Kamala Harris hang outside a restaurant in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day.Todd Heisler / The New York Times / Redux Donald Trump’s presidency concluded not with mutiny in state capitals or an attempted attack on his successor, but with a calm, conventional ceremony in an otherwise quiet city. Walking through Washington, D.C., today, the silence in the streets was the sound of a country not quite...

Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 will be unlike any other in modern memory. After the assault on the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of the current president’s supporters, authorities across the country are wary of follow-up attacks not only in Washington D.C., but in all 50 state capitals. The threat of further violence threatens to mar the peaceful transition of power after the 2020 election handed Joe Biden a victory—results the president and a minority of Republican lawmakers have falsely contested for months.