Opinion

When I wrote two weeks ago about the difficulties of accessing – in anything close to a timely manner – health care specialists, I had no idea what a raw nerve that column would expose.

On Saturday, the day before the election in Hungary, I went to Puspokladany, a rundown town of about 16,000 in the northeastern part of the country, for the penultimate rally of the opposition leader, Peter Magyar. Though the region has traditionally been a stronghold of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, the square where Magyar spoke was overflowing; there seemed to be at least 1,000 people, many of them teenagers and young families. Over and over, Magyar beseeched the crowd, “Do not be afraid!” The crowd, in turn, broke into a chant: “We are not afraid!”

Is it political suicide to declare that God is nonbinary?

The Millionaires Tax was passed and signed, but it faces a challenge in the courts and possibly at the ballot box.