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Published in 1993 but set in 2025, Octavia E. Butler’s prescient Parable of the Sower follows a young woman, Lauren, surviving in California during a time of societal collapse bought on by climate change, increased wealth inequality, and the rise of an opportunistic demagogic president.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025 -
In his Broadway debut, George Clooney plays the broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, exposing the demagogic Senator Joseph R. McCarthy on air in 1954, during his Communist-hunting campaign of terror.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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That was the extent of her involvement in the special counsel’s investigation, which led to more than 1,500 people being charged and most convicted of trespassing, vandalism, assault or seditious conspiracy.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Rhodes had been convicted of seditious conspiracy after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but his sentence was commuted by Trump earlier this year.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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