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President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Don't be duped by Trump's dictator jokes

Heather Digby Parton
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters and staff on his airplane, known as Trump Force One, as he is flown to Iowa on Monday, March 13, 2023, in West Palm Beach, FL. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sad day for Trump, good day for America

Heather Digby Parton
(Reuters/Jim Young)

George Bush's enduring shame

Paul Rosenberg
Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills)

Reagan: The postwar FDR?

Elias Isquith
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(AP/Ron Edmonds)

Ronald Reagan's FDR side

H.W. Brands
Jay-Z, Ronald Reagan, Kanye West (AP/Reuters/Benoit Tessier/Danny Moloshok/Photo montage by Salon)

Reagan's hip-hop nightmare

Matthew Pulver
(Associated Press)

Watergate's most lasting sin

Rick Perlstein
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Fox News/AP/Susan Walsh/Photo montage by Salon)

It's even worse than Fox News

Paul Rosenberg
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Elliott Abrams (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The right's scoundrel returns

Heather Digby Parton
President Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills)

Reagan "treason" amnesia

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

God won't save us from history

Patrick L. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy (AP/Reuters/Junko Kimura-Matsumoto)

Obamacare's coming vindication

Ronan Keenan
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