Tens of thousands of Hungarians poured into the streets along the Danube River, singing folk songs and waving flags ...

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Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister who spent 16 years building one of the world’s most studied models of ...

By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST, April 16 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's defeat in the elections on Sunday ...

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A party born just two years ago beats a party that seemed hard-wired to power after 16 years in power. And beats it in such a convincing way, ie not with a slim majority. A historic tsunami that ...

The party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which offered repeated support for what it saw as a model regime and key ally during the ...

You also will not reckon with this moment until you see that it is not only the populists who can be antidemocratic or ...

Learn about Péter Magyar, the former Orbán insider who ended Hungary's 16-year ruling regime and is now set to lead the ...

If opponents of right-wing populists elsewhere hope to reprise Peter Magyar's victory, they will need to glean the right ...

The defeat of Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary’s parliamentary elections may usher in a new era in Western commentary, ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Getty; Neil Milton / SOPA / LightRocket / Getty. The political earthquake that Hungary experienced on Monday, when the party opposing ...