An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from ...

The bipartisan foundation has assisted countless grassroots democrats abroad since its founding during the Reagan years.

Trump’s politics of mass deportation have long been associated with migrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the center of a forest 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) northeast of Warsaw, signposts point the way to a "place of national remembrance." It's mid-January, and Michael Zev Gordon has returned to ...

Education Ministry halves religious lessons, sparking backlash over discrimination and threats to religious freedoms ...

Caught between the capitalist West and a communist Poland rich in humor, she navigates both worlds with hope and determination. The narrative weaves in excerpts from Osiecka’s diaries ...

The last time I saw Krakow was the summer of 1990. Communist power had ended in Poland, but old ways continued. The police still barked orders. The buildings moldered. The air still choked with ...

Polish prosecutors have been investigating ... under which the Biden administration would loosen sanctions on the communist-run island, while Havana would release more than 500 people from its ...

Ukrainian officials have said that both the UPA and the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) were part of the resistance against communist Soviet Union. Many in Poland have advocated for ...

The uprising in Egypt carried echoes of another protest movement 30 years earlier — Poland’s Solidarity movement, which helped pave the way for the fall of the Iron Curtain and resulted in the ...

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On Sept. 9, 1943, a four-engine British Halifax bomber dropped three Polish paratroopers into their occupied homeland. One of them was Elżbieta Zawacka, also known as Zo, the sole female member ...