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President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Illustration by Getty Images/Salon)

When a narcissist led the world into war

Andrew O'Hehir
A Palestinian youth stands on a street strewn with rubble following an explosion in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images)

How the Gaza war changed America

Nicholas Liu
Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to the media, Sept. 5, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on woke is centuries old

Andrew O'Hehir
Signage about slavery is displayed on an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Michael Yanow/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Philly sues over slavery exhibit removal

Jelinda Montes
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A statue titled "Dictator Approved" is displayed on the National Mall on June 17, 2025. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

How much worse will it get by 2029?

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Gen. Francisco Franco (right) with Prince Juan Carlos in 1975, shortly before Franco's death. (Keystone/Getty Images)

MAGA's new fascist man-crush: Franco!

Andrew O'Hehir
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Angelina Katsani/Underwood Archives/Katsumi Murouchi)

That time a socialist ran for mayor

Andrew O'Hehir
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Trump at the UN: Yeah, that was historic

Andrew O'Hehir
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Armed groups hold a rally in front of a closed Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas,on January 17, 2021 during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. ((Photo by MatthePhoto by Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

Political violence is part of US history

Maurizio Valsania
Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Troops in the streets: A short history

Andrew O'Hehir
Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (Getty/Preston Keres)

Trump: Museums too focused on history

Alex Galbraith
A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Children die, and the world does nothing

Henry A. Giroux
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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
JD Vance at a campaign event in Phoenix, Sept. 5, 2024. (Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)

Who's a real American? JD Vance knows

Andrew O'Hehir
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
Asylum seekers and border patrol agents at an improvised camp near the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Feb. 2, 2024. (Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)

Global apartheid: A secret history

Aviva Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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Adolf Hitler visits the Dresden exhibition "Degenerate Art" in 1935. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Nazi crusade against modern art

Nicholas Liu
An engraved illustration of pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, with one wearing a MAGA hat. (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / mikroman6)

Why America is nuts: Blame the Pilgrims

Paul Rosenberg
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with Donald Trump at the White House, May 21, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White genocide, white guilt and Trump

Andrew O'Hehir
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
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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
From left: Former Nazi diplomat Franz von Papen, financier Hjalmar Schacht and propaganda chief Hans Fritsche after their acquittal on war crimes charges in Nuremberg, Oct. 4, 1946. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

When the rich rolled over for fascism

Nicholas Liu
A statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020. (PARKER MICHELS-BOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Expert on "sorry history" behind MAGA

Charles R. Davis
A collage of various Confederate and Soviet "memorabilia," including a bust of Vladimir Lenin, a statue of Robert E. Lee, and various postage stamps. (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Dzmitry Halko
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