lockdown, bracing for potential unrest until after the inauguration. There was a last burst of chaos on Sunday with
a bombshell New York Times report revealing an associate of Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was “going to cost $2m”. At the end of the 45th president’s single term, the US is riven with stark inequalities, rising white supremacist terror and large numbers who believe the election was stolen. The new administration faces a truly daunting challenge. Joe Biden will
sign a series of executive orders in his first days in office, attempting to roll back damage done at home and abroad by Trump on climate, Iran, Covid and more. And while the public will not see