Hungary Moves to End Rule by Decree, but Orban’s Powers May Stay
BUDAPEST — Long before Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary was granted the power to rule by decree to combat the outbreak of the coronavirus,...
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Trump Tests a Role He’s Long Admired: A Strongman Imposing Order
President Trump has come closer this week than at perhaps any point in his presidency to reproducing, in appearance if not in form, some of...
Trump, On George Floyd Protests, Tests a Role He’s Long Admired: A Strongman
President Trump has come closer this week than at perhaps any point in his presidency to reproducing, in appearance if not in form, some of...
Hungary Outlaws Changing Gender on Documents After Birth
Yet with migration fading as a potent issue, and with the world struggling to manage the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Orban’s government has shifted its focus...
Donald Trump Doesn’t Want Authority
For the last four years two Western political figures have loomed particularly large in the imaginations of anxious liberals. The first is Donald Trump, notionally...
Despotism, Democracy and the Coronavirus
The first major crisis of the post-American world is ugly and is going to get worse. A pandemic required a pan-planet reaction. Instead it found...
Trump: Why Waste a Crisis?
When things aren’t going smoothly for President Trump, his go-to move is to change the subject to topics that cheer his supporters and drive his...
Coronavirus Has Lifted Leaders Everywhere. Don’t Expect That to Last.
BRUSSELS — President Emmanuel Macron, never very popular, has touched his highest approval ratings in France since the onset of the coronavirus. As Italy has...
The Wisconsin Primary Shows That Democracy Is in Trouble
If you aren’t terrified both by Covid-19 and by its economic consequences, you haven’t been paying attention. Even though social distancing may be slowing the...
Autocrats’ Dilemma: You Can’t Arrest a Virus
CAIRO — When the virus hit, the strongmen hit back as they know best. For Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, that meant deploying chemical warfare...