The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski was born in the ancient capital of Lvov, but cherishes no early memories of the city. Lvov was occupied by the Germans at the time of the poet’s birth. After the Red Army occupied the city at the end of World War II, Zagajewski’s family was forcibly repatriated—or…
Readers will recall that just before memories of the Confederacy became an existential threat to national unity, Americans were worried about another—and surely more plausible—menace to the United States. In early August, Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator who has been successfully testing…
Recently, French president Emmanuel Macron addressed the Polish government with perhaps the most scathing criticism of any European leader to date. Polish citizens, he said, “deserve better” than the current government, which “has decided to isolate itself in the workings of Europe.”
This week on the Kristol Clear podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol explains why Donald Trump's Warsaw speech was a high point for his presidency.
Speaking to the Polish people in Warsaw Thursday morning, President Donald Trump reaffirmed U.S. commitments to Europe and promised to work together with allies to defend the values of family, freedom, country, and God.
The Trump administration will announce Thursday an agreement with the government of Poland to sell the Eastern European ally American-manufactured surface-to-air missile systems. The agreement comes seven years after the Obama administration removed a group of missile launchers from near the…
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren talks with host Eric Felten about what to watch for in President Trump's trip to Warsaw for a speech and then Hamburg for a G20 summit.
Recent American presidents have held up Poland as a beacon of freedom and democracy in the post-Soviet era. Of all the former Communist bloc states in Eastern Europe, Poland most closely resembles the United States—a nation of freedom-loving, working-class religious people. And as Barack Obama,…
President Donald Trump leaves for Europe Wednesday morning ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg Friday and Saturday. But instead of starting off with meetings with the leaders of traditional allies of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, the president will first travel to our NATO ally…
Andrzej Wajda, the Polish film and theatre producer and director who restored his country's consciousness of its torment at the hands of its Russian and Nazi German enemies, died on October 9 in Warsaw at the age of 90. His body of work made him an outstanding personality in the past 60 years of…
Poland's government has passed a law, upheld by its constitutional court, "that significantly limits the rights of people whose property in Warsaw was seized during or after World War II, and their descendants, to apply for restitution," according to the New York Times. The law sets up hurdles…
The same day the Hillary Clinton campaign store introduced a new collection of pins designed by various artists and graphic designers, The Forty-Five Pin Project, the collection is already one short. Within hours of listing the collection Thursday, the pins designated by Polish artist Agniezka…
Leading Polish politician Jarosław Kaczyński rebuked Bill Clinton Tuesday for suggesting that the Polish people were sluggishly giving in to authoritarianism.
Just hours before President Xi Jinping's arrival in Prague on Monday for the first state visit by China's head of state to the Czech Republic, his host, President Miloš Zeman, gave a curious interview to Beijing's state broadcaster, CCTV. He called the impending visit "a restart" for Czech-Chinese…
During Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio repeatedly attacked Donald Trump for his use of illegal immigrant labor to build Trump Tower.
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On the Weekly Standard cruise to Bermuda in July, I received an unusual request. After dinner one evening, I was approached by Carrie Ann Stallings from Jackson, Mississippi. She was on the ship with her husband, Alan.
The latest ad from Mitt Romney's campaign goes after Barack Obama for declaring "war on religion."
Listen to the audio of the media horde screaming questions at Mitt Romney just after he had finished paying his respects at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and tell me you don't sympathize with the pithy comment by his aide, Rick Gorka.
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Mitt Romney’s stop in Jerusalem will probably remain the highlight of his foreign trip, but his eloquent and powerful speech today in Warsaw deserves more notice than it will probably get. In his remarks, Romney suggests a theme for his trip as a whole and a rationale for visiting the three nations…
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Fox News host Greta Van Susteren finds Ron Paul supporters in the streets of Poland, where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is visiting:
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