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These pieces introduce the central story of this publication: Hungary after Orbán, the dismantling of a captured state, the rebuilding of institutions, and the habits of power that refuse to disappear just because the government changed.
The post-Orbán story
Hungary After Dark: The Two Counts
A week when Hungary counted what the Orbán state left behind: mandates, judges, public money, media offices, audit powers, EU conditions, bank records, company registers, Pride, heat, hospitals, and the mood of a country trying to recover itself.
Viktor Orbán Lost Power. Has Anyone Told Him?
Orbán conceded Hungary’s election, skipped the opposition bench, and began the stranger work of remaining larger than the office he lost.
Snap Analysis: The Transition Enters the Law
A close reading of Hungary’s 17th amendment and what happens when democratic repair moves into the constitutional text.
Hungary After Dark: What Fidesz Lost This Week
Orbán was barred from the office he built around himself. In the days that followed, the old protections began to peel away.
The details of Orbánism
Hungary After Dark: What the Old State Wrote Down
Inside the cabinet summaries, cost tables, and missing records that show how Orbánism turned political messaging into government action.
Closure Is Not Revenge
A country cannot repair what it refuses to examine.
Orbán’s Poisoned Miracle
In Göd, north of Budapest, the future arrived as a grey industrial wall.
Sixteen Years, Sixteen Tells
A guide to the patterns that kept Orbán’s system legible even when it pretended to be normal.
The personal stake
The Long Way Back to Hungary
How leaving, illness, love, and language became a way of returning.
I Left Hungary as a Child. I Want to Go Home.
A personal essay on distance, memory, and the strange pull of a country you left before you could fully understand it.
Europe Was a Road, Then a Classroom, Then a Home
How Erasmus turned Europe from a borderless idea into a life I could actually live.
I Knew It Was Wrong Before I Had the Courage to Say So
A personal essay on recognition, fear, and the long work of saying clearly what you already knew.