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Story Publication logo August 15, 2018

Today, Explained: Democracy Dies in Daylight

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Syrian refugees strike in front of Budapest Keleti railway station. Image by Mstyslav Chernov. Hungary, 2015. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Hungary's democracy is on the brink of total collapse. How could this happen in an advanced European...

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Democracies can fall many ways: military coups, assassinations, mass protests. But what does it look like when a democracy quietly backslides into autocracy? Vox's Zack Beauchamp went on a trip to Hungary to explore the country's troubling political transformation.

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