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What Viktor Orbán’s Opponents Sacrificed to Beat Him

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National Security

There’s a Message for MAGA in Viktor Orbán’s Defeat

Isaac Stanley-Becker

April 13, 2026

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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable

April 12, 2026

Hungary Just Ousted the Unoustable

Isaac Stanley-Becker

April 12, 2026

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Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose

Isaac Stanley-Becker

April 10, 2026

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J. D. Vance Is Definitely Against Foreign Election Interference

Isaac Stanley-Becker

April 7, 2026

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The MAGA Intellectual Who Prophesied a Queen Melania

Isaac Stanley-Becker

April 6, 2026

National Security

The Hardest Job in Europe

Isaac Stanley-Becker

March 31, 2026

The First Post-Reality Political Campaign

March 27, 2026

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The Tariffs Loss Is Paradoxically a Win for Trump

Rosalind Dixon and David Pozen

February 26, 2026

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No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual

February 17, 2026

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Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

Robert F. Worth

March 2026 Issue

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An Unsustainable Presidency

April 29, 2025

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America’s Future Is Hungary

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A Battle for the Soul of the West

March 19, 2025

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Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar

March 15, 2025

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DOGE Gets a Foreign Ally

Isaac Stanley-Becker

March 4, 2025

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The New Rasputins

February 2025 Issue

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The Russia Hoax Is Still Not a Hoax

David A. Graham

October 11, 2024

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Make America Hungary Again

July 17, 2024

Corruption Unbound

January/February 2024 Issue

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Why the Populist Right Hates Universities

Michael Ignatieff

August 6, 2023

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Behind the American Right’s Fascination With Viktor Orbán

Jacob Heilbrunn

August 27, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily

The Right’s Rising Authoritarian Ally

August 4, 2022

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in front of a podium at CPAC

Why Viktor Orbán’s Racism Matters in the U.S.

Conor Friedersdorf

August 3, 2022

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Tucker Carlson’s Self-Loathing International Tourism

August 6, 2021

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The Autocrat’s Legacy

July 6, 2021

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The Path to Autocracy

June 15, 2020

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Radio Atlantic: Liberalism’s Last Stand

May 9, 2019

Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect

June 2019 Issue