It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right

Orbán is out after 16 years. What comes next is harder. Gábor Scheiring names three traps that can fuel backlash: economic insecurity, weak political voice, and resentment.

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Péter Magyar will be sworn in as Hungary’s new prime minister this week. His government has a strong technocratic thrust — a departure from Viktor Orbán’s cronyism but hardly a revitalization of demo...

Viktor Orbán loses in a landslide—but Hungary’s illiberal system remains. CFK Global Fellows Gábor Scheiring and Kristóf Szombati discuss how the opposition broke through and the challenges ahead with...

The fall of Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary raises a question the celebrations have obscured: why did dismantling such a corrupt and inhuman system take sixteen years? The answer lies less in ide...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán reshaped higher ed in Hungary. Here's how academics are learning from it.

One hundred headline-dominating days into his presidency, some have compared Trump to FDR, the first president to use the “first 100 days” framework. The comparison couldn’t be more wrong. One is choosing chaos, cruelty, and corruption. The other brought the competence to contain instability, answer the uncertainties of unchecked capitalism, and rein in grift. One man is undermining democracy. The other sought to preserve it. And in this moment, FDR has a lot to teach those of us who seek to preserve. The greatest lesson: When democracy and authoritarianism compete for popular loyalty, the most important battleground is the economy.