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Echoes and Openings: Reconnecting Democratic Ideals with the Realities of the Present
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…
 • Péter Dósa
Caution lingers, even now.
Orbán has lost. Elation is unmistakable, yet sixteen years of disappointment have trained my instincts to distrust even the clearest numbers.
 • Péter Dósa
Viktor Orbán Lost Power. Has Anyone Told Him?
Orbán conceded Hungary’s election, skipped the opposition bench, and began the stranger work of remaining larger than the office he lost.
 • Péter Dósa
Hungary After Dark: What the Old State Wrote Down
Inside the cabinet summaries, cost tables and missing records that show how Orbánism turned political messaging into government action.
 • Péter Dósa
The Audition to Become Europe’s Next Orbán
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 Dósa
The Refinery on the Shannon
The legal route from the Shannon into Russia’s war economy, and the Irish silence that gathered around it.
 • Péter Dósa
The Long Way Back to Hungary
How leaving, illness, love, and language became a way of returning
 • Péter Dósa
Hungary After Dark: The Man Who Wouldn’t Leave
Tamás Sulyok refuses to resign. Parliament now faces its first major post-Orbán test: removing entrenched figures left behind by the former regime.
 • Péter Dósa
Spain Is a Country I Love Deeply. That Is Why Vox Terrifies Me.
How Orbán’s politics found an ally in Spain’s far right, and why Vox threatens the plural country I’ve come to love.
 • Péter Dósa
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