Topic: authoritarianism

Donald Trump during a press conference at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The tyrant's playbook

Andrea Mazzarino
Queer dance floors are places where bodies marked by fear can breathe, move, touch and feel alive again (Sarah Morris/WireImage)

The dance floor was never just an escape

Henry Kurkowski
According to a new Gallup poll, most Americans believe the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed in America today. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Grieving America's 250th birthday

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's MAGA brand is fading

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump meets with his Cabinet at the White House (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Flattery is the job in Trump's Cabinet

Chauncey DeVega
A display of banned books (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Tennessee tried to whitewash "Roots"

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump's vulgarity poisons public life

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump Exhaustion Syndrome is spreading

Brian Karem
The U.S. Capitol Building, June 21, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

We can still restore democracy — maybe

Mike Lofgren
Marines in Iraq receive copies of Stars and Stripes in 2003 (DAVID K. DISMUKES/US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images)

Military's newspaper captured by MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
Democratic campaign posters in rural Georgia (Julia Beverly/Getty Images)

The South can help defeat MAGA

Beth Howard
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been an inspiration to President Donald Trump (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Orbán under threat in Hungary

Heather Digby Parton
ICE agents at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

ICE at the airport is just the beginning

Chauncey DeVega
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the Cabinet and White House officials who have been granted military housing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A Cabinet behind military gates

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump has threatened reporters with treason over Iran war coverage (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Trump to media: Cheer the war — or else

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump (Doug Mills / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s dangerous moral crusade

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The price of democracy in America

Chauncey DeVega
ICE officers depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on February 4, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The staying power of mass deportations

Chauncey DeVega
The Trump administration's attacks on accurate history at Smithsonian museums have led some historians to practice "guerrilla teaching." (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Historians fight Trump policing the past

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump's recent fundraising emails have taken a creepy turn (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Why Trump's creepy emails work for MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Getty Images))

Trump gets help ignoring public opinion

Chauncey DeVega
PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 23: Derrick Johnson onstage during the NAACP Panel: “From TV to Policy” hosted by Acura at the Acura House of Energy on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Acura)

NAACP's leader on democracy

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump speaks to journalists at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 29, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

They said Trumpism was fading

Chauncey DeVega
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