Don't call it a populist revolt. What's happening in Hungary and Poland is creeping authoritarianism.

Blaming the Russians, or political opponents, only goes so far.

Europe’s biggest challenge in resisting US sanctions on Iran is not legal or even geopolitical. It is psychological: European leaders act as if the US still cares about a trans-Atlantic alliance of shared interests, values, and approaches.

Trump told Iran and many of our allies to go fuck themselves today because he hates Obama and now who knows the world might end soon but anyway I love y'all.

The party of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a resounding victory in Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, drawing cheers among fellow nationalists in Poland while renewing fears of creeping authoritarianism among other EU members.

In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to be the promised land. Not anymore.

Russia has ordered 60 U.S. diplomats to leave by April 5, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a retaliatory move against Washington which expelled a similar number of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a Russian spy in England.

The United States and its European allies are expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK. US President Donald Trump has ordered 60 Russian diplomats to leave the country. Germany, France, Ukraine, Canada and various European countries have also expelled envoys.

General McMaster had struggled for months to impose order not only on a fractious national security team but on a president who resisted the sort of discipline customary in the military.

Rex W. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, had been among President Trump’s most well-regarded cabinet choices. He is replaced by Mike Pompeo, currently the C.I.A. director.

While some EU leaders seek unity over budgets and refugee policies, member states Poland and Hungary are building a unified front to thwart the bloc's plans.

Last July, Trump thought the Polish people were ‘so fantastic,’ and many shared that opinion of him. Now, it’s ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you.’ Reason: The Holocaust bill.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used legal means and emergency powers to turn Turkey into an authoritarian system. A new law to rein in the web is next on his agenda.

President Donald Trump, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday, attacked his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton, one of his predecessors in President George W. Bush, and praised China's President Xi Jinping for his recent move eliminating term limits.

The past, in Poland, is not a foreign country; it is morality drama and passion play, combining high ideology and down-and-dirty politics. One recent manifestation of history’s significance has been the creation of several ambitious and architecturally inventive museums dedicated to central events and themes in the Polish past.

The Polish lurch into illiberalism and rewritten history is an immediate danger to the European idea.

With Xi Jinping's great power comes great irresponsibility.

The European Union has warned Albania against "interference" in neighboring countries and Serbian officials accused Tirana of wanting to build a "Greater Albania," after the Albanian prime minister said his country and Kosovo could one day have a single president.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.

A dark past is always upsetting. Poland’s effort to criminalize open discussion of Poles’ role in the Holocaust is no way to make anyone feel better.