For months, Hungary’s media apparatus pumped out stories lionizing Donald J. Trump and deriding Kamala Harris, described in one headline as “extremely unpleasant.”

In October, the country’s leader vowed to “open several bottles of Champagne if Trump is back.” And then, as U.S. voters went to the polls, scores of his supporters gathered for a celebratory party in Budapest before the results were even called.

No foreign leader gambled so heavily or publicly on a Trump victory as Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary. A fervent fan of the U.S. president-elect, Mr. Orban has greeted the election results with unrestrained glee.

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I’ve covered the brutal realities of Ukraine’s war on its eastern front lines since the Russian invasion of 2022, but my home on the other side of the country remained largely untouched by violence.

In September, the conflict reached my family in an unexpected way.

Our car and the apartment we live in were hit by a Russian missile while I was away on assignment, and while my wife and daughter were visiting family elsewhere. Even though none of us were at home when the missile struck, it was a jarring reminder that there are no truly safe places in Ukraine.

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For three years, Silvia Alanis visited high schools in a small town in northern Argentina, teaching sex education and providing teenagers with birth control as part of a federally funded effort to lower high rates of teen pregnancy.

But now the program has been largely dismantled by the government of President Javier Milei, who has called feminism a “ridiculous” fight that threatens Western values and described abortion as “aggravated murder.”

As part of a broader belt-tightening plan to address Argentina’s prolonged economic crisis, Mr. Milei is cutting programs aimed at women, and pushing back against policies that promote gender equity and diversity.

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