Hungary

The shocking attack should spur a stock-taking by Slovaks and the EU to reverse the country's rapid slide toward autocracy.

Public and formal education will be needed to fulfill the resolution's purpose of ending genocide denial and preventing future atrocities.

Human rights activists see Orban escalating repression of independent organizations and media, and they call on the US Congress to help.

Russia's 2022 invasion eased enlargement fatigue a bit, but the long-delayed Western Balkans process is instructive. The EU must do better.

Countries that maintained their democracies have had courts that rose to the occasion to safeguard a country’s constitution or rule of law.

Pro-democracy allies and organizations should call out such media capture and other tools of domestic election interference.

Americans should pay attention to how Hungary lost its democracy, as their own leaders on the right embrace a similar course.

Authoritarians across the globe are collaborating. To counter them, those interested in protecting democracy must do the same.

Any accession deal must ensure the potential newest members don’t flout the rule of law that helps underpin the strength of the alliance.

His landslide re-election and Russia's war on Ukraine makes pushback on the region's autocratization harder -- and more needed -- than ever.

It aims to show that sticking to principles on the one hand and seeking constructive dialogue on the other are not mutually exclusive.

How to break six common and unhelpful patterns in US engagement with security partners that abuse rights or democratic standards.