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author of RED FAMINE, GULAG and IRON CURTAIN. Washington Post columnist. Professor of practice, and co-director,ARENA

Warsaw, London, Washington
Joined May 2011

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    After this is all over, I never, ever want to hear again about how businessmen would run the government better than politicians.

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  3. "We take it for granted. Historically, though, the phenomenon of the neutral civil service — apolitical government employees, chosen and promoted on merit, working on behalf of the state rather than a person or party — is vanishingly rare"

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    Important analysis from . Highly recommend Lost Kingdom by Serhii Plokhy for those who want to know more on the deep history here - the world has moved on from the days of Little Russia and White Russia.

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  7. "government bureaucrats" include security workers at airports, people who process food stamps for the poor, people who guard national parks and museums. Trump is forcing all of them into hardship, all around the country

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  8. Moscow may be on the cusp of becoming, once again, a full-fledged imperial capital, absorbing and ruling over multiple countries...

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    . says USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to protect itself from terrorism. I was a correspondent during that war. There was no Afghan attack on Soviet territory prior to invasion. Such ignorance does not inspire Polish faith in the US security guarantee.

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    Jan 3

    Germany faces the biggest hacker attack in its history. Private data of almost 1000 German , Parliament & delegates was leaked. I worked through the leaked data all night. It's shocking! Not affected so far: .

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    yes, very good connecting of the dots. Where is Trump getting his odd, and false, ideas about Belarus, Montenegro, and, most recently, Afghanistan? The only possible sources are all Russian.

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    Jan 3

    “The most shameless Soviet propagandist never claimed that Afghan terrorists were attacking Russia,” said Barnett Rubin, an Afghanistan expert at New York University. “You can read all Soviet media in the 1980s and never find anything this ridiculous.”

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    Jan 2

    Smart piece. I think the resort to catastrophism comes from a very real sense that way too many people are blind to or don’t care about the decline of democratic values. Our task is to jump and just hope there is a net to catch us

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    Jan 2

    There’s a lot of “Wow, Republicans sure aren’t the party of Reagan anymore” lamentations these days but it’s kinda hard to top endorsing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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    Jan 2

    The shutdown is already starting to hurt the most vulnerable people in the country, via ⁦

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  19. Jan 2

    From and Jaroslaw Kuis, editors of

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  20. Jan 2

    Against Liberal Defeatism

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    Jan 1

    The NRA, which pumped $30 million into campaign, says it took money from 23 Russia-linked donors

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