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How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.

His agenda has stalled, but he's already done lasting damage to America.

The president is becoming a typical right-wing Republican, thereby preserving a flawed status quo.

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The terrifying impact of the president's permanent uncertainty.

The biggest hurdle to the president's proposal isn't money or geography. It's private landowners.

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One family’s journey from Iraq to Ohio—and how life has changed under Trump.