The festooning of the president’s name and likeness across Washington, D.C., is consistent with authoritarian tendencies.

The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.

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The Trump administration is squeezing Cuba to a breaking point—and is seemingly willing to engage in a high-seas stand-off ...

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People are being banned from dating apps without knowing why.

A few kids circled around him as he played, staring at the truck. Their parents stared at me. I knew what everyone was ...

In B movies, on TV, and as a meme, he let you feel like you could do what he did, even though you almost certainly could not.

The Trump administration’s budget cuts are looming over Tax Day.

A poem ...