After losing power, Viktor Orbán’s party has discovered tyranny, political persecution and a second Trianon.

Viktor Orbán left behind a better armed Hungary and a weaker bond with its allies. Péter Magyar’s repair job begins inside the state.

In Transcarpathia, language rights, wartime loyalty and EU accession meet in the lives of a shrinking Hungarian community.

Hungary’s opposition turned private frustration into public power by giving people something to do. With 124 days until the midterms, the anti-Trump coalition has to do the same.

How Europe learned to manage Trump by flattering him.

Orbán conceded Hungary’s election, skipped the opposition bench, and began the stranger work of remaining larger than the office he lost.

Orbán gave Europe’s nationalist right proof that its politics could govern. His defeat leaves a more awkward question: who can make the trick work now?

Péter Magyar’s first European tour placed Hungary back under Europe’s gaze: exposed, examined, and visible again under a harsher light.

In Göd, north of Budapest, the future arrived as a grey industrial wall.

A country cannot repair what it refuses to examine.

On boyhood, silence, and how the far right turns male insecurity into politics.

Péter Magyar’s first gestures suggest that after Orbán, democracy must be made visible before it can be trusted.

FIFA, the World Cup, and the cost of being chosen.

To understand Orbán’s Hungary, begin not with what it forbids, but with what it compels women to endure.

Hungary offers a lesson Democrats would do well to notice: when people are boxed in by a broken political order, warnings are not enough. They need to see a crack in the wall.

Two weeks after Orbán's historic loss, the future arrived before the new government did.

While Orbán tried to shrink Hungarian public life, Gergely Karácsony made the capital harder to break.

Tisza’s first governing press conference was about whether Hungary can become a state again.

He had built a machine to keep surprises out. The machine filed its resignation in the form of arithmetic. I have watched this man dismantle Hungarian public life and wrap each demolition in the langu...

Orbán has lost. Elation is unmistakable, yet sixteen years of disappointment have trained my instincts to distrust even the clearest numbers.

Tonight made me proud of Hungary. What is happening in Budapest will stay with people for a long time. Lots of great Hungarian artists have taken the stage at Heroes’ Square, and the crowd has stretc...

"If Orbán wins, it will be a global proof of concept for elected autocracy after 16 years of state capture."

I am anxious, I am far away, and I cannot stop believing something is about to change. This essay is what that feels like.

An explainer on the election, the system around it, and what could happen if the result is close.

After sixteen years of manufacturing fear, Orbán is confronting the one thing his system was never built to survive: his own visible panic.

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A personal essay on loving a country that has been made unloveable.

For sixteen years, Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into the authoritarian right’s model state. If he loses on April 12, the myth of strongman inevitability may crack with him.

Five cartoons, five stories, and one man who crashed every single one of them and somehow left his orange fingerprints all over it.

Three contenders. One crown. Zero self-awareness.

Viktor Orbán built power on competence, moral order, sovereignty, stability and inevitability. Before the election, all five are collapsing.

Viktor Orbán built power on competence, moral order, sovereignty, stability and inevitability. Before the election, all five are collapsing.

Orbán warns endlessly about foreign interference. But one of the most reliable vote pools in his favour sits beyond Hungary’s borders.

This articlde examines the complex relationship between Viktor Orbán and Russia, and its implications for the EU's political landscape.

Welcome to the first-ever crowning ceremony of Clown of the Week.

Issue #3: Staged Outrage, Shifting Lies