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

Trump is remaking America — as Russia

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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
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
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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
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
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
Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

American democracy is not a lost cause

Chauncey DeVega
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How Orbán inspired Trump's media assault

Heather Digby Parton
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
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
Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
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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
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
Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump-MAGA experience machine ramps up

Chauncey DeVega
Elon Musk speaks with President Donald Trump and reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How will Trump's chaos change the world?

Paul Rosenberg
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U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, Minority leader U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson lead marchers during the Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Dems need to ditch the unity pitch

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)

There is only one end to MAGA dominance

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks Vice President JD Vance, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris look on during his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

America is dizzy from Trump's spectacle

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's constitutional crisis strategy

Chauncey DeVega
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's shock and awe versus the courts

Chauncey DeVega
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivers a sermon during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tuesday marks Trump's first full day of his second term in the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The resistance needs to find its faith

Chauncey DeVega
People protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump's decision to virtually shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

The Age of Trump is a great moral crisis

Chauncey DeVega
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump exploits a failure of imagination

Chauncey DeVega
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