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

Trump's "American Hell" is everywhere

Brian Karem
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to President Donald Trump's address during a tour to an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30, 2021 in Pharr, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump, Abbott bring autocracy to Texas

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump announced his decision to place Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control on August 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's DC takeover is an ominous move

Chauncey DeVega
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump speak to reporters before touring a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida is MAGA's autocracy laboratory

Chauncey DeVega
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New York Times columnist David Brooks, seen in Washington, D.C., in 2011. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

David Brooks flunks history

Mike Lofgren
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on July 13, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump is causing emotional turbulence

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing the White House for Alligator Alcatraz, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Donald Trump has become "the hunter"

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

America's slide into totalitarianism

Mike Lofgren
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Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during the South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in Columbia, SC. (Sam Wolfe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Walz is sick of "sternly worded" letters

Tatyana Tandanpolie
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Media again distracted by MAGA spectacle

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's big beautiful bill is revenge

Chauncey DeVega
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Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on October 4, 2023. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Team Trump's "many mistakes" catch up

Chauncey DeVega
US President Donald Trump speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Our democracy crisis reaches a new stage

Chauncey DeVega
Protesters holding banners and signs at a rally (Getty Images/Vanessa Nunes)

Why young people can't save democracy

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump Burning Money (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The United States is in a free fall

Chauncey DeVega
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U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Resistance is slowing Trump's sprint

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

"It will take us a long time to recover"

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump duiring a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term with Elon Musk in attendance. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's security: The cover of chaos

Chauncey DeVega
Large group of students at university lecture hall (Getty Images/skynesher)

Happiness has a generational gap

Chauncey DeVega
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A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) dances as he leaves the stage after speaking alongside former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard during a town hall meeting in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is no joke

Chauncey DeVega
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump is reflected off a window as he speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. Trump closed out his weekend of campaigning in New York City with a guest list of speakers that includes his running mate Republican Vice Presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Tesla CEO Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, among others, nine days before Election Day. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The MAGA cargo cult: Freedom is slavery

Mike Lofgren
A Federal agent is photographed as ICE conduct raids on a local tire shop business in Colony Ridge on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The War on Terror comes home

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
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