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Cooking From a Polish Country House Kitchen

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 01.29.2013 | Taste
Read More: Polish Tourism, Fall of Communism, Perogies, Polish Cooking, Iron Curtain, Ethnic Food, Danielle Crittenden, From a Polish Country House Kitchen, Ethnic Recipes, Gulag, Pieorgi, Ethnic Cooking, Anne Applebaum, Polish Recipes, Polish Food, Taste News
Danielle Crittenden

2012-11-29-FromaPolishCountryHouseKitchenCOV.jpgFor many of us, the term "Polish cooking" conjures up memories of heavy, greasy dishes: the food of exile and poverty. But as we happily discovered, the new Polish cuisine is not your grandmother's cooking.

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Before There Was Pussy Riot...

Anne Applebaum | Posted 01.21.2013 | World
Read More: Cold War Propaganda, Eastern Europe Communist Youth, Cold War Dissent, Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe Communism, Communist Propaganda, Communist Dissent, Anne Applebaum, Cold War, Cold War History, Communism History, World News
Anne Applebaum

2012-11-21-IronCurtain.jpgEven in a society like Stalinist Eastern Europe, gripped by terror, young people found ways to express their discontent, just as they have so recently in the Arab world and North Africa.

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Cold-Blooded: Grandma Souljah, Felon-Friendly Cuts, and Other Austerity Horrors

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Energy Subsidies, Sistah Souljah, Austerity Economics, Social Security, Al Pacino, Erskine Bowles, Dick Durbin, Anne Applebaum, Scream, Tony Montoya, Barack Obama, Alan Simpson, Ecclesiastes, Tim Geithner, Kent Conrad, Poverty, Don Johnson, Poor Energy Cuts, Energy Cuts, Obama Energy Cuts, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Something has gone seriously wrong when Democrats can convince themselves that their path back to popularity lies in cutting Social Security and leaving poor people to freeze in the dark.

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Language, Identity & Revolution in Tibet

Jamyang Norbu | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Protests, Cultural Revolution, Language, Gesar Epic, Revolution, Tibet, Anne Applebaum, Dalai Lama, Ethnicity, Poetry, Religion, Tibet Protests, Tibetan Protesters, Identity, Tibet China, World News
Jamyang Norbu

The Tibetan capital doesn't have a single representative of the international media posted there. Tibetans can only send news of student demonstrations to the outside world by using rough-and-ready ways.

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Austerity Chic: It's This Year's "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Suck on This, Robert Reich, Social Security, Steny Hoyer, Deficits, Anne Applebaum, Hillary Clinton, Fareed Zakaria, Anna Wintour, Austerity, Dean Baker, Tom Friedman, Ctherine Deneuve, Glenn Greenwald, SIgby, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

In Washington, screaming about being in the red is the new black. We've seen this herd mentality before, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Once again, the experts tell us that the warning lights are flashing red. The fashionistas aren't listening.

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As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Deficit Commission, Alan Simpson, Megan McArdle, Tom Friedman, Anne Applebaum, Media News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The aging American workforce is being vilified, in much the same way the poor were in previous decades. Politicians and pundits who once might have spread myths about "welfare queens" are now describing retired people as "greedy geezers."

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Polanski's Pardon? Not So Fast

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Poland, Roman Polanski, Anne-Applebaum, Entertainment News
Max Kolonko

I find it incomprehensible (being also a Polish citizen) that Polish authorities can engage the majesty of the state to defend a fugitive, no matter how famous he is.

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Anne Applebaum, Child Rape Apologist?

Jillian York | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Rape, Sharon Tate, Anne Applebaum, Radoslaw Sikorski, Washington Post, Roman Polanski Court Case, Roman Polanski, Media News
Jillian York

In her piece, Applebaum claims that Polanski has paid for his crime of raping a 13-year-old girl "in notoriety, lawyers' fees, in professional stigma." Oh, the humanity.

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