Bitter Hope in a Cold Climate Bitter Hope in a Cold Climate
Friday, February 15. It's getting dark. My wife, Jeanne, and I land at Okiecie, the Warsaw airport. The temperature is 19 degrees below freezing.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Poland–Ashes and Diamonds Poland–Ashes and Diamonds
Prices were raised sharply in Poland on January 30, by an estimated 40 percent, and hell did not break loose.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Solidarity–The Road to Power Solidarity–The Road to Power
For the next weeks and months the eyes of the world will be focused on Poland, where events are now unfolding at an unexpectedly dramatic pace.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Poland Chooses–What’s at Stake Poland Chooses–What’s at Stake
There seem to be a large measure of agreement between Walesa and Mazowiecki over fundamental economic policy.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer and Lawrence Goodwyn
The Dream and the Nightmare The Dream and the Nightmare
"How could anyone possibly say that the October Revolution was in vain?" the poet Tvardovsky angrily told Solzhenitsyn in what now seems another age.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Something Rotten in the Kingdom Something Rotten in the Kingdom
When in London, if you have some time to spare, go east to the Isle of Dogs to visit what was to have been Europe's biggest office-plus-housing project.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Bad News for French Socialists Bad News for French Socialists
Toulouse, known as the cité rose because of the color of its walls, was the palest pink in October as the French Socialists held their congress there, the last before their...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show
Most French voters, judging by opinion polls, are bored with the current presidential campaign. No wonder.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer