Is This the End of Viktor Orbán in Hungary?

For 16 years Viktor Orbán has used a parliamentary supermajority to effect constitutional control over institutions, targeting minorities, political opponents and the independent media 

Purple Rain (Live From Minneapolis) | Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform "Purple Rain" in honor of "The Maestro" Prince for the opening night of the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 31, 2026.

The Kids Are All Right

Melinda Wenner Moyer Scientific American
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

Are US-Iran Ceasefire Talks in Pakistan Doomed To Fail?

Farah N. Jan Responsible Statecraft
You cannot negotiate with a regime you are trying to destroy. Trump’s oscillation between threatening to blast Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and describing “very good and productive conversations” is the logical endpoint of an incoherent strategy.

The Friends of Viktor Orbán

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Orbán has brought together a mind-boggling assortment of elites in the cause of ethno-nationalistic anti-liberalism—a cause, clearly, that can unite communists and capitalists, Jews and antisemites.

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Matteo Wong The Atlantic
Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.