Tonight, we can watch a 1 minute 1939 British Pathé film on how Poland is preparing itself for defense and is a key part of the British-French alliance. Well, about that....Not that one can blame Poland of course.
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Two weeks ago, we got unexpectedly good news out of Romania. Against expectations largely created by the ugly first round results, the candidate of Europe, Ukraine, and general sanity defeated.
Back in 2023, Donald Tusk led a broad coalition that managed to do what opposition coalitions in Hungary and Turkey could not: defeat and replace an illiberal, de-democratizing hyper-nationalist party.
Travelling and otherwise engaged the last few days, I have been delinquent in preparing my election coverage. What's going on this weekend? First, New Zealand, yesterday. The outcome was expected but deeply unfortunate. New Zealand’s next prime minister will be Christopher Luxon, a former chief...
Poland is going to lead the way for right-wing states in the U.S.--forcing women to take tests to see if they abortion drugs in their system. Nearly three years ago,.
On February 10, 1971, mostly female textile workers in Lodz, Poland, went on strike in an incredibly brave worker actions against the communist regime. It was relatively apolitical, but was.
Source: Freedom House Apropos of Scott's previous post, the Brussels Sprouts podcast has a very good rundown with Dan Kelemen and Zselyke Csaky. You should give it a listen. https://soundcloud.com/brussels-sprouts/autocratization-in-central-europe-with-dan-kelemen-and-freedom-houses-zselyke-csaky
This is the grave of Nicholas Rey. Born in Poland in 1938, Rey was a baby when the Nazi-Soviet Pact split apart his nation. Luckily for him, his family managed.
Ishaan Tharoor has a very good discussion of the broader context of Trump's meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Though accustomed to lectures from Brussels, Duda and his allies are.
On August 7, 1980, a Polish shipworker named Anna Walentynowicz was fired from her job at the Gdansk shipyard five months before she was due to retire for engaging in illegal trade union activity. This firing led to the Polish Solidarity movement, the independent workers...
Last Friday, Poland’s lower house passed a bill (months in the making) that would make it a criminal offense—punishable by a prison sentence—to implicate Poles in the crimes of the.
Twenty years ago, the wonderful director Krzysztof Kieślowski died. His most famous work is the Blue, White, Red trilogy made in France. Those are great films, but his best work.