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.

Vladimir Putin’s allies think the ex–Fox News host is a link to Donald Trump.

Following the United States’ cue, fascist world leaders are planning to ignore the ICC and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war crimes.

Donald Trump used his debate against Kamala Harris to make some bizarre boasts.

Get ready for some angry Truth Social posts from the former president.

Donald Trump is meeting with Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán.

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.

As Vladimir Putin grows increasingly isolated, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán becomes the chief conduit to the West for Putin-style authoritarianism and corruption.

A study of strongmen misses deeper reasons for democratic collapse.

The celebrated writer talks about the Hungarian elections—and whether former German Chancellor Angela Merkel could get through to Vladimir Putin.