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Voting Dangerously: Britain, Europe, and the United States

June 27, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Back in 2015, the French woke up having to mobilize against the threat of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, infamously nationalist and anti-immigrant, after its overwhelming victory in the first round of regional elections in 2015. Earlier that year, Poles elected a president endorsed by the Law and Justice ...

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The Museum of the History of Polish Jews

The return of the secular Jew to a happier Poland

November 21, 2014 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

The grand opening of Polin or the Museum of the History of Polish Jews at the end of October was a widely anticipated event, and when its exhibition was finally revealed, the celebration was covered by major media in Europe, the U.S., and, unsurprisingly, Israel. Timothy Garton Ash and Anne ...

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On Bitter Satisfaction

The European Court of Human Rights ruling on Polish-CIA collaboration

July 30, 2014 • by Karolina S. Follis

The verdict was more forceful than expected. On July 24, 2014 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg handed down two unanimous rulings in the cases of Al Nashiri v. Poland and Husayn (Abu Zubydah) v. Poland. The cases concerned the extraordinary rendition ...

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On Bitter Satisfaction
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