Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.

For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The vice president just had his worst week in politics: rallying with a losing candidate in Hungary, then overseeing the failed negotiations over the Iran war. What new misery awaits him?

Donald Trump and JD Vance, that’s who. Is the global tide turning against authoritarian illiberalism?

Vice President JD Vance went to Hungary purportedly to condemn election interference. Then Donald Trump interfered.

Vance made one heck of a comment while campaigning for the right-wing Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

This is not the burn that Leavitt thinks it is.

Democracy scholars say Trump is having way more success than expected in becoming America’s dictator. One reason: Too many Americans—including some Democrats in Congress—are far too complacent about it.

Some troubling world leaders are cheering Trump and Elon’s gutting of USAID.

Trump, Musk, and their billionaire and theocratic allies are following the example of tyrants everywhere. But it’s worth remembering they haven’t all succeeded.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

The right-populist Law and Justice Party’s pursuit of illiberal democracy could be cemented if it wins an unprecedented third term.

The central European country isn’t exactly the right-wing paradise many Republicans portray it as.

Meet Europe’s new far right, the same as the old far right.

Maryland’s Andy Harris loves the Hungarian strongman. Maybe what his father did during WWII helps explain some things.

If the GOP wins in 2022 and 2024, here’s how it’ll capture Congress, the courts, and the executive branch to make America into Hungary.

Some of the “classical liberals” who founded an ersatz college for “free speech” sure seem more at home in Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime.

Put away your inhibitions, the Hungarian prime minister urged the right-wing crowd in Dallas. God wants conservatives to fight for the West.

It’s probably already too late to save American democracy. Here is the series of improbable events doing so would require.

Fox News’s chief wingnut has spent all week fawning over authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro and making absurd, ignorant statements about the country.