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Topic: Hannah Arendt

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
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
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Has Trump really built a "movement"?

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Rick Loomis)

"Incivility" and the rise of fascism

Henry A. Giroux
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Adolf Hitler addresses a Nazi campaign rally, April 4, 1932. (Getty/Keystone)

How they made Germany great again

Andrew O'Hehir
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Philosopher: "Trump is evil"

Chauncey DeVega
Peter Weller as RoboCop in "RoboCop" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)

"RoboCop" is 30

John Semley
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The right wing war on facts

Sophia A. McClennen
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Donald Trump, Hannah Arendt (Reuters/Chris Keane/AP)

Is Donald Trump a new Hitler?

Andrew O'Hehir
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America's duty to refugees

Elias Isquith
(Reuters/Nir Elias/Baz Ratner/Salon)

The West’s selective amnesia

Falguni A. Sheth
Hannah Arendt, David Foster Wallace (AP/Hachette Book Group)

In defense of irony

Laura Miller
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A glorious 1930s tragicomedy

Andrew O'Hehir
Wendy Lower (Björn Marquart)

Jacob Sugarman

"Hannah Arendt" still provokes

Andrew O'Hehir
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