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Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian Model Has Collapsed

David Broder Jacobin
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him.

This Week in People’s History, Apr 15–21, 2026

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Civil War enlistment poster headlined "To Arms!"
Starting Civil War (1861), U.S. Out of Vietnam! (1966), France Bullies Haiti into the Poorhouse (1826), Milwaukee’s Successful Socialist Mayor (1916), ‘Give Us the Vote!’ (1866), A Megalomaniac’s Birthday (1939), Sipping-In for LGBTQ+ Rights (1966)

Resource Competition With China Lay Behind Trump’s Iran War

Guy Laron Jacobin
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource