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A year after the state’s special status was revoked, peace remains a distant hope.

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Invoking crisis is a favorite tactic of dictators—and widespread misuse of the word robs it of its power.

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Makana Eyre

Makana Eyre is a freelance journalist based in Paris.

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Protesters hold a giant Polish national flag during a demonstration against a judicial reform pushed through by the right-wing government but criticised by the EU as a threat to judicial independence on July 24, 2018 in Warsaw.

Poland Is Purging Its Prosecutors

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Makana Eyre, Jon Allsop

October 11, 2019, 8:20 AM

Adam Michnik, a prominent communist-era dissident who is now editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading liberal newspaper, is pictured in his newspaper's office on Feb. 23, 2018 in Warsaw.

Poland’s Government Is Systematically Silencing Opposition Voices

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Makana Eyre, Martin Goillandeau

May 31, 2019, 12:31 PM

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