Time is of the essence: should Poland and Germany not reach a swift agreement, it’s not impossible that, with Poland’s direct or indirect support, Putin and Trump will benefit the most.
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Making sense of the latest news and events in Polish politics, culture and society.
Time is of the essence: should Poland and Germany not reach a swift agreement, it’s not impossible that, with Poland’s direct or indirect support, Putin and Trump will benefit the most.
The former Polish president, Lech Wałęsa, had been a paid informant for Communist secret police. What does this mean to us?
We do not know where this road will lead us; we only know that it will be difficult to follow.
The liberal opposition is playing right into Kaczyński’s hand: its scandals have all but discredited the protest movements.
This phase of Poland’s parliamentary crisis is over, but Poland remains stuck in a much deeper one – the crisis of far-right authoritarian rule, of representative parliamentary politics and of democracy itself.
He was a consistent critic of postmodernity and identified the basic mechanism of reproduction in contemporary societies: consumption and seduction.
Interview with Barbara Blaine, the president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)