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Even after a long public campaign declaring he would get peace and a summit with Putin in Alaska, Trump finally admits he "fell short" of his goal. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty Images)

US-Russian nuclear arms pact expires

Garrett Owen
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
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a joint news conference with on February 18, 2024 in Ankara, Türkiye. (Yavuz Ozden/ dia images via Getty Images)

Zelenskyy: US might deploy troops

Alex Galbraith
Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a gift shop in Moscow. (Nikita Borissov/AFP via Getty Images)

How Putin won the war

Andrew O'Hehir
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Jared Kushner at a press conference in Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kushner is at the center of corruption

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump speaks at the NATO summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump the "destroyer" endangers Europe

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

Trump is remaking America — as Russia

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "Animal House" is floundering

Brian Karem
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a joint news conference with on February 18, 2024 in Ankara, Türkiye. (Yavuz Ozden/ dia images via Getty Images)

Ukraine peace plan faces EU backlash

Blaise Malley
President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's MBS embrace shames all of us

Austin Sarat
Donald Trump | Nuclear Blast (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Making America radioactive again

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump attends the men's singles final during the U.S. Open on Sept. 7, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

US sanctions Russia, calls for ceasefire

Alex Galbraith
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is using her platform to demean democrats and tell schoolyard jokes. Critics call it endemic of the current climate in the White House. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

White House continues being “Mean Girl”

CK Smith
President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's diplomacy by insult

Brian Karem
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
A Palestinian youth inspects the rubble from the destroyed house of the Qrayqea family in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City on March 18, 2025 following Israeli strikes at dawn. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

From Guernica to Gaza

Norman Solomon - TomDispatch.com
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President Donald Trump prepares to speak after watching the 250th birthday parade of the U.S. Army, which also coincides with his own birthday, on June 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump confronts the limits of his power

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump announces on Sept. 2, 2025, that U.S. Space Command will move its headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's long weekend of humiliation

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Beware of Trump's Budapest peace talks

Chauncey DeVega
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)

Anything to stop talking about Epstein

Brian Karem
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First Lady Melania Trump departs the White House with President Donald Trump. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The weird sexism of Melania's Putin plea

Amanda Marcotte
Trump and Putin meet in Alaska for supposed peace talks. No resolution, a brief no-question press conference, and maybe Moscow next time. Zelenskyy noticeably absent and uninvited to meet Trump next week. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

What peace looks like to Putin and Trump

Ronald Suny - The Conversation
First Lady Melania Trump attends a roundtable discussion at the Capitol. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Interpreting Melania's letter to Putin

Jason Kyle Howard
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump jokes about cancelling election

Alex Galbraith
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