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Topic: Dystopia

A person reading a novel with a tattered American flag and President Donald Trump displayed in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / FreshSplash / Rebecca Noble / imagedepotpro)

When a president goes rogue — in fiction

David King Dunaway
American actor Peter Weller on the set of "RoboCop," directed by Paul Verhoeven. (Orion Pictures Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Weller on "RoboCop" to Renaissance man

Chauncey DeVega
Futuristic city with an organic architecture (Getty Images/3000ad)

Why utopian thinking is so dangerous

Émile P. Torres
Kim Woo-bin as 5-8 in Black Knight (Kim Jin-young/Netflix)

Black Knight's dystopian gig work heroes

Melanie McFarland
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Rosario Dawson in "DMZ (Eli Joshua Adé/HBO MAX)

Careful: This "DMZ" is full of plotholes

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump | Aliens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The real world: Stranger than sci-fi

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
The Expanse (Amazon Studios)

Extremism is no joke on "The Expanse"

Melanie McFarland
Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton in "Snowpiercer" (TNT)

Can we exit the dystopian train already?

Melanie McFarland
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Golden sun rays beaming through white clouds (Getty Images)

A new climate narrative, built on hope

Jeff Biggers
"New Order" (Teorema Films)

Brutal "New Order" not for the squeamish

Gary M. Kramer
Alden Ehrenreich as John the Savage on "Brave New World" (Steve Schofield/Peacock)

A sexy, Syfy-esque "Brave New World"

Melanie McFarland
A person wearing a protective mask looks on as homeless, informal vendors, Venezuelan migrants and people displaced by the armed conflict protest demanding humanitarian aid during the COVID-19 quarantine. (Guillermo Legaria Schweizer/Getty Images)

From here to dystopia

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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Aldous Huxley (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Huxley foresaw our Big Data nightmare

Ramesh Srinivasan
Pro-choice demonstrators rally outside the Women's Medical Clinic in Cranston, R.I., Nov. 4, 1991. (AP/Matthew Brown)

Why I set my abortion novel in the 1990s

Elizabeth Keenan
(Getty/Tasos Katopodis)

Is Donald Trump Big Brother?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Colson Baker and Ashton Sanders in "Captive State" (Parrish Lewis/Focus Features)

"Captive State" failed, but may endure

Chauncey DeVega
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(AP/Evan Vucci)

This is hell: Trump sliding into our DMs

Erin Keane
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-587221p1.html'>file404</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Creating politics with integrity

Terry Patten - Truthout
SpotMini robot by Boston Dynamics (YouTube/BostonDynamics)

Robotics' PR problem

Keith A. Spencer
Sean Young in "Blade Runner" (Warner Bros.)

Sex in dystopian films

Gabriel Bell
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(Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

The five most dystopian apps of 2017

Keith A. Spencer
Robots, produced by Knightscope, are intended to assist in crime prevention and law enforcement. (Getty/Rob Lever)

Robo-cops harass homeless S.F. residents

Jarrett Lyons
(Universal Studios)

A fairy tale from 2050

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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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