The Lost Glamour of DC’s Political Elite

Executive Chef and Owner Christianne Ricchi sits for a portrait inside Ristorante i Ricchi, a restaurant specializing in Tuscan country-style cuisine, in Washington, on April 23, 2024. | Photos by Shuran Huang for POLITICO Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former editor-in-chief of POLITICO. He previously worked for the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, based in Kyiv, Brussels, Paris and New York. Bill and Renay Regardie are shown to...