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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been an inspiration to President Donald Trump (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Orbán under threat in Hungary

Heather Digby Parton
ICE agents at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

ICE at the airport is just the beginning

Chauncey DeVega
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the Cabinet and White House officials who have been granted military housing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A Cabinet behind military gates

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line

Chauncey DeVega
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President Donald Trump has threatened reporters with treason over Iran war coverage (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump to media: Cheer the war — or else

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s dangerous moral crusade

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The price of democracy in America

Chauncey DeVega
ICE officers depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on February 4, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The staying power of mass deportations

Chauncey DeVega
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The Trump administration's attacks on accurate history at Smithsonian museums have led some historians to practice "guerrilla teaching." (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Historians fight Trump policing the past

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump's recent fundraising emails have taken a creepy turn (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Why Trump's creepy emails work for MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Getty Images))

Trump gets help ignoring public opinion

Chauncey DeVega
PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 23: Derrick Johnson onstage during the NAACP Panel: “From TV to Policy” hosted by Acura at the Acura House of Energy on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Acura)

NAACP's leader on democracy

Chauncey DeVega
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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 29, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

They said Trumpism was fading

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Do Americans want a dictator? Maybe

Chauncey DeVega
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Dems: It's more than just the economy

Heather Digby Parton
A banner showing a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) building on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Trump is something worse than a fascist

Heather Digby Parton
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President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, for a summit meeting on Russia's war on Ukraine. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump on well-trod path to autocracy

Konstantin Zhukov - The Conversation
An "ICE Out for Good" protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE's threat was there from the start

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s hall of mirrors presidency

Chauncey DeVega
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in 1776, helped galvanize colonial support for American independence. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Library of Congress / DeAgostini / DigiPub)

At 250, "Common Sense" still matters

Edward J. Larson
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Jared Kushner at a press conference in Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kushner is at the center of corruption

Sophia Tesfaye
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is remaking America — as Russia

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "Animal House" is floundering

Brian Karem
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