Sławomir Sierakowski
Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
Last week, on his way to the G20 summit in Hamburg, US President Donald Trump visited Warsaw, where he delivered a speech to loud applause. But the tools Trump used to excite public opinion – praise t… read more
This week, US President Donald Trump will meet with Central and Eastern European leaders at a summit in Warsaw for the Three Seas Initiative – Poland's bid for regional leadership. The Polish governme… read more
By comparing today’s Poles to the Holocaust’s Jewish victims, and today’s refugees to the Nazis, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has demonstrated yet again that the Law and Justice government is co… read more
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has such a tight grip on power that Hungarians must depend on external pressure to stop the slide into authoritarianism. And yet even Germany, the only country th… read more
While Emmanuel Macron's victory over Marine Le Pen in France's presidential election is good news, it does not necessarily represent a turning point for populism in Europe. In fact, Macron himself rep… read more
So far, Poland's “illiberal” counterrevolution has entailed cracking down on the independent judiciary and the free press. But the government's latest moves now suggest that the ruling Law and Justice… read more
The bid by Poland's de facto leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, to derail Donald Tusk's reelection as European Council President has ended in a humiliating defeat. We can now expect the Polish government to … read more
Until very recently, Donald Tusk's election to a second term as President of the European Council seemed certain. But now Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland, faces a challenge from an unlikely s… read more
Antagonism is mounting between today’s right-wing populists and a somewhat unexpected but formidable opponent: women. In the US, much like in Poland, women’s rights have been among the first targets o… read more
The Trump administration lacks both a global strategy and anyone who could formulate and implement one. And unless anti-populists in general – and the center left, in particular – face up to some hard… read more
