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Topic: 1984

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Leavitt’s White House doublethink

Laura Beers - The Conversation
President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Oct. 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

How far will Trump go to sell a lie?

Brian Karem
Margaret Atwood's Unburnable Book, a fireproof edition of her prescient and often banned book The Handmaids Tale is on display at Sothebys in New York City on June 3, 2022. (NGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Handmaid's Tale, 1984 book sales rise

Hanh Nguyen
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Is Donald Trump Big Brother?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
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A copy of George Orwell's novel '1984' is displayed at The Last Bookstore on January 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

What "1984" tells us about today's world

Stephen Groening - The Conversation
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Entering a 1984 world, Trump-style

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
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Donald Trump's unreality overdrive

Heather Digby Parton
Mike Pence and Paul Ryan applaud as Donald Trump arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives, February 28, 2017. (Reuters/Jim Lo Scalzo)

Growing my way out of dystopia

Frida Berrigan - TomDispatch.com
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down the memory hole

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
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Taylor Link
(Reuters/Mike Segar)

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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Ban Trump's sad American view

Jim Hightower
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2017 becomes 1984

Matthew Rozsa
Aldous Huxley; George Orwell; Donald Trump (AP/John Locher)

Orwell + Huxley = Trump

Conor Lynch
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Normalizing Trump in "1984"

Chauncey DeVega
Elizabeth Warren, Walter Mondale (AP/Susan Walsh/Barry Thumma/Salon)

America's anti-liberal myth

Mike Conrad
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Prachi Gupta

Moira Donovan - PolicyMic
General Keith Alexander (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

America: Scarier than Orwell

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

Everyone's wrong about Orwell

Morten Høi Jensen
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Welcome to dystopia

Andrew O'Hehir

Miles Klee - The Daily Dot
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