What Hungary's new leader really wants

At first glance, Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar may appear to be the antithesis of the man he defeated in the April 12 election, Viktor Orbán. After all, the two were embroiled in a bitter campaign that featured accusations of sabotage, Russian interference, and blackmail over a sex tape.

Yet the pair might be closer than you think – both on policy and politics.

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Medicare for All Is an Electoral Winner

Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.


The candidates who win on health care in the future won’t be policy wonks or those declaring it a human right. They’ll be the ones who make insurance companies the villain, frame universal coverage as freedom, and present it…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP

Avi Lewis will lead an NDP in dire straits — but also one with a strategic opening to the left of the Liberals, whose posture against Donald Trump has reshaped the political terrain.


The scale of the challenge that new NDP leader Avi Lewis faces in rebuilding the party is considerable. (Dominik Magdziak Photography / WireImage)

Over the weekend, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP)…

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How Local Elected Officials Are Trying to Check ICE

Democrats in Congress may be failing to meaningfully check ICE, but that’s not the story in towns and cities. There progressive and socialist lawmakers are working with local movements to craft ways to push back on the agency’s authoritarianism.


Cities across the United States are figuring out how to slow ICE’s reckless authoritarian roll. (Sara Diggins / The Austin American-Statesman…

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Hakeem Jeffries Refuses to Answer Question on Abolishing ICE

Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to engage with growing calls to abolish ICE, even as the agency is in the nadir of its popularity.

_The Left Hook_ podcast host Wajahat Ali read Jeffries a list of facts when they appeared together Friday on _The Joy Reid Show_.

“Sixty-five percent of people taken by ICE had no convictions, that’s from the Cato Institute, a…

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Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds

Early last year, polls and media commentary suggested that crime would be the defining issue of the New York City mayoral race. Then, Zohran Mamdani’s campaign started to take off. By the end of the race, the news organizations that conduct exit polls asked voters to choose the top issue animating their votes among these five choices: crime, cost of living, health care, immigration, and…

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