Having long since undermined any claims he might have had to rudimentary decency, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has now begun to undermine his own dangerously authoritarian regime. The most overtly anti-Semitic leader of a European nation since Adolf Hitler, Orbán is now the target of daily demonstrations from an increasingly unified group of Hungary’s previously squabbling […]
Viktor Orbán
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Netanyahu Cements His Place in the Illiberal International
His new Nation State Law fits his friendship with the new autocrats.
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Brexit Hate Propaganda
The Daily Telegraph’s attack on George Soros crosses a new line.
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Democracy and Illiberal Governance in Hungary and the U.S.
While Viktor Orban’s nationalist populism offers chilling parallels with Trump’s America, the U.S. is in a better position to resist authoritarianism.
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The European Mirror
Is there any way out of the dialectic of neoliberal policies producing economic backlash and support for the nationalist far right?
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Resisting Trumpism in Europe and the United States
Authoritarian democracy is on the march on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite alarming parallels, the U.S. remains better positioned to preserve and rebuild true democracy.
