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Captured public institutions must be repaired without resorting to the same dubious methods that degraded them.
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A backlash against the backlash: Poland’s failed conservative revolution
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By pursuing its conservative agenda, PiS has pushed Polish society in a more liberal direction.
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NfP podcast: “The opposition is in crisis; our hope lies in Trzaskowski” – interview with Barbara Nowacka
Stanley Bill talks to one of the leaders of Poland’s Civic Coalition about the opposition’s current troubles.
The “Polish Deal”: PiS strikes back as opposition falter
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A new economic plan reinvigorates the ruling coalition and puts the divided opposition on the back foot.
NfP podcast: a brief history of Poland, part 6 (the fall of the Commonwealth)
Stanley Bill looks at the decline and fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century.
NfP podcast: a brief history of Poland, part 5 (conflict in the seventeenth century)
Stanley Bill looks at the Polish-Russian wars, Sarmatian culture, uprising in Ukraine and conflict with the Turks.
NfP podcast: “The opposition must be more professional” – interview with Leszek Balcerowicz
The former finance minister talks about PiS’s social spending, rule of law and the opposition.
NfP podcast: a brief history of Poland, part 4 (the golden age)
The fourth episode of our history series looks at the last Jagiellonian kings, religious diversity and tolerance, and the Polish Renaissance.
NfP podcast: rule of law and the EU budget – interview with Poland’s deputy foreign minister
Stanley Bill speaks with Paweł Jabłoński.
NfP podcast: “Revolution against the church” – Poland’s abortion protests
Stanley Bill talks with feminist activist Agnieszka Graff about the mass protests against the recent abortion ruling in Poland.
NfP podcast: what’s behind the conflict inside Poland’s government?
Stanley Bill talks to political scientist Ben Stanley about the recent crisis in Poland’s ruling coalition and the government reshuffle.
NfP podcast: Belarus, Poland, Russia, and the West
Stanley Bill talks to Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, head of Belsat TV, about the Belarusian protests, Poland’s interests, and Russian intervention.
NfP podcast: a brief history of Poland, part 3 (the Jagiellonian era)
The third episode of our history series examines the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Polish-Lithuanian union, and the growing freedom of the nobility.
“Undula”: a newly discovered story by Bruno Schulz
For the first time in English, Notes from Poland presents a lost story by Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, translated by Stanley Bill.
