Trump and Putin: Two Empires, Two Styles

They both aspire to rule the world. One does it through noise, the other through silence. One through excess, the other through staging. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on different paths, yet they converge at the same point: the appropriation of reality.

A year after Trump’s return to the White House, America is in distress. Two-thirds of Americans say their lives have become "unaffordable." Housing and healthcare are strangling them. Approval ratings are plummeting...