Managed Decline: Lessons from Viktor Orbán’s Loss

Results of Central European parliamentary elections rarely make much news in the United States, but Viktor Orbán’s defeat certainly did. The Hungarian prime minister conceded Sunday after ruling for 16 years, and many wonder if the result predicts the downfall of Donald Trump’s populism the same way that the 2016 Brexit vote foretold his shocking

UNC Officials Accused of Not Protecting Students or Defending Free Speech After April Fools’ ICE Article, ‘Sorority Girl’ Skit Lead to Death Threats, Campus Uproar

Students are receiving death threats and being “told to kill themselves” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a satirical April Fools’ article in the student newspaper and a comedy video caused an uproar over their mockery of immigration, race, and class issues on an easily triggered campus. University officials fiercely denounced

The Misleading Media Groupthink On China’s Renewable Energy

“Never just read one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis

Wingman Woes: Gallego Caught in Swalwell Storm

Few believe the Arizona senator’s claim to have been ‘shocked’ by allegations against his ‘closest friend in Congress’ Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) is taking heat after a sexual misconduct scandal forced his good friend, California Democrat Eric Swalwell, to suspend his campaign for governor and resign from Congress. “An important question everyone should be

Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022.

Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold pledge as he campaigned for his first term in 2017: He would release

Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases

Dan A. Emmett’s contributions reflect an emerging trend in which left-wing donors bankroll climate litigation and climate-related academic literature intended to influence judges Dan Emmett (yale.edu), Sher Edling logo (sheredling.com), Sabin Center for Climate Change Law logo (@SabinCenter/X) Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and

GOP’s John Sununu ‘Very Confident’ He Can Win Under-the-Radar New Hampshire Senate Race As Polling Shows Tight Contest

NORTH HAMPTON, N.H.—The race for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat has yet to attract the sort of national media attention as the contests in Maine, Michigan, and Texas, where left-wing Democratic candidates have driven national headlines by donning Nazi tattoos, refusing to celebrate the death of the ayatollah, and calling God nonbinary. But the Republican