The right-populist Law and Justice Party’s pursuit of illiberal democracy could be cemented if it wins an unprecedented third term.

Chaos and corruption are on the rise, the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians to claim control.

Prigozhin’s mutiny was the “first marker of the cracking of the regime,” according to one Ukrainian intelligence source.

A Polish reproductive rights lawyer recounts the extraordinary obstacles women in Poland have faced since the country prohibited nearly all abortions.

Poles quickly banded together to help those fleeing the violence of the Russian invasion. But as the war drags on, strains on resources and goodwill are starting to show.

We’ve heard a lot about the 1.3 million fleeing Ukraine. But more than 66,000 men who were abroad when the invasion started have gone back.

The scene in a small Polish border town is harrowing, as thousands of Ukrainians flee in one of the fastest human migrations in decades.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

Economic liberalization can be just as traumatic as military intervention.

Why the Law and Justice Party has pulled back from its Polexit proposal

The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the French left has been happy to go along.

Donald Trump, in agreeing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, seems willing to endorse countries flouting international law.

Absurdism, modernity, and Eastern European identity in the work of Witold Gombrowicz

The moral burdens of living under communist rule in Eastern Europe