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President Donald Trump New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Mamdani's Trump meeting was a risky move

Norman Solomon
resident Donald Trump takes questions from the press in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants to tell CNN who to hire

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump jokes with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's piggish behavior hits new low

Brian Karem
President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's MBS embrace shames all of us

Austin Sarat
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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 on path to authoritarian rule

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump prepares to speak after watching the 250th birthday parade of the U.S. Army, which also coincides with his own birthday, on June 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

MAGA will strike back harder than ever

Chauncey DeVega
Shadows of "Little Men" against a world map (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Venn diagram of Trump's vendettas

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump holds up a model of his proposed triumph arch at the White House on Oct. 15, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's monument fit for an emperor

Benjamin Jasnow
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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on October 31, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

How Donald Trump broke the American mind

Sophia A. McClennen
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the annual Halloween at the White House event on Oct. 30, 2025. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The horror of Donald Trump's America

Brian Karem
The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump demolishes more than the East Wing

Chauncey DeVega
Protesters march against Trump's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump's enemies list keeps expanding

Chauncey DeVega
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Proud Boys members Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl at the Capitol on Feb. 21, 2025. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One on Oct. 19, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"No Kings" sewage video is no joke

Chauncey DeVega
Protesters attend the No Kings march on Boston Common on Oct. 18, 2025. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

How "No Kings" missed the mark

Austin Sarat
The "No Kings" rally in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18, 2025. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"No Kings" short-circuits MAGA’s mockery

Sophia Tesfaye
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Former President Barack Obama speaks during day two of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Obama warns of America's breaking point

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump holds a press availability on Oct. 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump puts despotism at our doorstep

Brian Karem
An anti-I.C.E. protester in a frog costume holds a sign at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on October 12, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Protest frogs are absurdly serious

Andi Zeisler
Demonstrators at a "No Kings" protest in Montpelier, Vermont. (John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

No Kings protests offer hope — and peril

Chauncey DeVega
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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
Former FBI Director James Comey (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Comey case echoes authoritarians

Cassandra Burke Robertson - The Conversation
President Donald Trump greets Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"Warrior culture" invades Chicago

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; James Comey (Getty/AP/Salon)

A new Red Scare? This could be worse

Chauncey DeVega
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