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Presidents

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by John Cullen,

One foreigner’s perspective

[Untitled]

by Steve Brodner,

Four More Years

by Thomas Frank,

The Trump reelection nightmare and how we can stop it

The Uncertainty Principle

by Walter Kirn,

The first year of the Trump presidency is behind us. The unimaginable has become the historical. But time, the reputed healer of all wounds, has somehow only aggravated this one.…

Notes to Self

by Ronald C. White,

Lincoln’s private thoughts on fate, failure, slavery, and belief

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

W.W.E. the People

by Naomi Klein,

By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books.

Me, Myself, and Ice Cream

by Carole Marsh,

From Donald Trump: America’s 45th President, which was published in November by Gallopade. The biography, by Carole Marsh, is for readers aged eight and up.

The Emigrants

by Friedrich Trump,

From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory…

Night Terrors

by Lucy Corin,

From reports of dreams and fantasies that Lucy Corin collected from friends and acquaintances after the 2016 presidential election. Corin is the author, most recently, of One Hundred Apocalypses and…

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?