It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

Magyar admitted he had not hoped for so much

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

Europe's mainstream parties remain firmly supportive of Ukraine, but divisions over Russia are becoming increasingly prominent among the populist radical right.

TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi Mihăilescu is turning deportation into bingeable content, burying resistance in the feed, and replacing physical walls with algorithmic control. Local populism dies and global spectacle rules

YouTube video by Juan Linz Institute

Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

Andrzej Duda’s job at the influential Heritage Foundation underlines how nationalist right-wing politics have become international.

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

The European Court of Justice has ruled that member states must recognise same-sex marriages lawfully concluded in another member state. The decision is poised to be greeted positively by Europe's LGB...

Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55