Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating.…
A longer, unpublished version of the Trump administrationās National Security Strategy identifies Poland as one of four countries the US should try…
Beginning in the late 1980s, Eastern Europe shifted from being a political backwater to a political bellwether. By shrugging off the Soviet…
Polls over the last year or so have consistently confirmed that Polish youth, especially males, have strongly right-wing sympathies, differentiating them from…
During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghettoās walls. Children whirled around carousels,…
The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland for the 80th annual…
On October 15th, in Poland, elections took place. Many people believe that they have been the most important since 1989, when the…
Polandās October 15 parliamentary elections have ended the eight-year rule of the incumbentĀ Law and JusticeĀ (PiS) party and theĀ United RightĀ (ZP) political alliance centred…
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