Author Elif Shafak, once put on trial for 'insulting Turkishness', warns of crackdown on free speech
Award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak sat down with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on The World podcast to talk about her ...
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Hungarian filmmakers struggle despite Oscar attention
The Brutalist,” a winner of three Academy awards, was shot almost entirely in Hungary. The central European country has ...
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Hungary's leader orders price controls on basic foods as inflation spikes
Hungary’s government is limiting the profit margin for grocers on a number of basic food items in response to growing inflation hitting consumers in the Central European country. Prime Minister ...
The Tragic Success of Global Putinism
For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...
U.S. aid to Ukraine, Karnataka Budget, and more: The week in 5 charts
The 97th Oscars Academy Awards were given out on Monday (March 3, 2025) for films and the people who worked on them in ...
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Viktor Orban warns against Ukraine's EU membership, says economic package with US is in the pipeline
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the admission of Ukraine to the EU would destabilise Europe's economy and its ...
Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
With the confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial of President Donald Trump’s ...
Conservatives watching South Korean fertility uptick for proof of concept on family policies
The government attributes the reversal to a shift in perceptions surrounding family institutions among people of procreating ...
Gaga, Britney, and a Moldovan Oligarch: A Cultural History of Ric Grenell, Trump’s Man at the Kennedy Center
The capital’s premier performing arts center is sitting dead center in the culture war crosshairs. What can its new, ...
‘His way has to be the model’: Team Trump turns to Hungarian strongman for inspiration on higher ed
For American conservatives, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary is willing to do what it takes to reclaim universities from the left.
‘A friend and ally’: How ties between the American right and Hungary’s strongman proliferated
A friendly meeting between President Trump, Elon Musk, and Viktor Orbán was the culmination of years of increasingly close ...
Hungary says EU has isolated itself, while Italy supports NATO Article 5 proposal
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a staunch supporter of Trump and considered to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Europe, refused to endorse part of the summit statement in ...