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Putin hosts leaders of Southeast Asian nations, seeking to boost their business ties
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin hosted leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Wednesday as Russia seeks to bolster business and other ties with the nations of the regional …
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CB 6 AND CB 9 BLOOD DRIVES: Community Boards 6 and 9 come together in a friendly competition to help save lives. Queens Blood Center (107-10 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills) schedule: Monday, June 22 through Sunday, June 28. Monday and Thursday: 1:15 pm to 8:15 pm; Tuesday and Sunday: 8:15 am to 3:15 pm;
The Next Big Score
Perched on the hills of Pacific Bluffs, the world-famous Kortz Center looms large over the Los Santos cultural scene. Priceless international works of art have adorned its hallways for years, and now the time has come to raid this prestigious gallery’s...
June 17 Playbook: Data Centers Scrambling PA Politics
🌞 It’s Wednesday! The halfway mark Headlines. Fight Over US Datacenters Is Scrambling Pennsylvania Politics. Energy Future A Defining Issue in Gubernatorial Race. PA Supreme Court Blasts Philly DA’s Office. “Charm Pricing” 🎶 Your Morning Pick Me Up. We’re Not Gonna Take It. Twisted Sister PA Weather☀️ Meadville | Mostly…
Ian Balint, Noah Tylutki Sweep MIAA Sports Information Awards
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Ian Balint and Noah Tylutki have each received sports information awards from the MIAA for the 2025-26 school year.
Crooked Letter Sports: Can anyone best Shinnecock?
The show welcomes back guest Randy Watkins to discuss this week’s US Open at the notoriously tough Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Plus, Ole Miss bows out of the CWS as the World Cup heats up.
Newsom sees Trump DOJ investigation as a political gift
An investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) could have put California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on defense. Instead, it is giving Newsom, seen as a leading Democratic White House contender…
Survey: Staff say school-based telehealth cuts behavioral issues
The new data comes from a survey by researchers at UNC Chapel Hill to assess the impact of school-based telehealth programs.
Abby Phillip on suggestions Vance being an Iran fall guy: ‘where you at Marco Rubio?’
Illusionists charm “America's Got Talent” judges — minus Simon Cowell — with dangerous act and Spice Girls T-shirt
Cowell tells one of the contestants that he looks like "that actor," by which he means Jonah Hill.
'Rich Kids of Beverly Hills' star Brendan Fitzpatrick sued over alleged $80M Ponzi-style scheme
Brendan Fitzpatrick, former star of E!'s 'Rich Kids of Beverly Hills,' is being sued over an alleged $80M Ponzi scheme involving his Sri Lanka-based global mining and commodities company.
CMS proposes codifying, strengthening Medicare drug price negotiations
Presented by Philip Morris International{beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY The Big Story Protect Our Care highlights adverse effects of GOP cuts on hospitalsDemocratic-…
Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden made a ‘terrible mistake’ by seeking reelection
Virtually "anybody else" who won the Democratic nomination could have beaten Donald Trump, she said during an interview in New York.
Hillary Clinton Says Biden’s Re-Election Bid Was a ‘Terrible Mistake’
If the former president had “passed the torch” and allowed a competitive Democratic primary in 2024, she said in a new interview, the winner “would have beaten Donald Trump.”
Main Line Health to add new 5-story tower to Paoli Hospital
The expansion is part of the health system's push to extend its reach in the Philly suburbs.
Florida Small Business Owners Meet with Congressional Leaders at NFIB’s D.C. Fly-In
NFIB’s annual event brings small business to Capitol Hill.
Michigan mastodon to find new ‘habitat’ at Cranbrook Institute of Science
Elmer the mastodon will migrate from the upper floors of Levinson Hall at OCC’s Highland Lakes campus to Bloomfield Hills.
NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade
Upgraded hardware will allow the Cold Atom Lab to set new records in quantum physics and help develop new technologies.
Roundup of third-quarter financial results for Philly-area nonprofit health systems
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was the most profitable nonprofit health system in Southeastern Pennsylvania during the nine months that ended March 31.
Cranbrook is getting a mastodon, and it's a mammoth project
With his campus closing, 10,000-year-old mastodon Elmer will be taken apart in Waterford and reassembled in Bloomfield Hills
Phillies' J.T. Realmuto voices displeasure with Marlins coaching methods
Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto voiced his displeasure with the Miami Marlins use of calling pitches from the dugout, saying, "I'm not a fan."
UToledo Earns National Recognition for Preparing Future Teachers in Science of Reading
Undergraduate and graduate early childhood education degree programs achieved top marks in a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain
The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.
Best summer books of 2026: Environment, Science and Technology
Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their best mid-year reads
Global Fund gathering in Luxembourg underscores international solidarity in health
A high-level working lunch with Members of Parliament, organized in Luxembourg by Friends of The Global Fund Europe, acknowledged that the contribution of Luxembourg to the Global Fund is an example of international solidarity and commitment for Europe and for the world.
Mitch McConnell ‘wants to be back’ on Capitol Hill after hospitalization, GOP leader says
Sen. Mitch McConnell “wants to be back” on Capitol Hill after he was hospitalized over the weekend, Senate GOP leader John Thune told CNN on Monday.
Hillsborough county attorney clarifies commissioners can't remove sports authority members
The legal opinion was requested by Commissioner Christine Miller after TSA voted to draft a letter to elected leaders seeking to prioritize Raymond James Stadium renovations over a new Rays ballpark.
Veteran Sire Social Inclusion Returns To Pennsylvania In 2027
Social Inclusion, a classic-placed runner and veteran sire, will return to Pennsylvania for the 2027 breeding season, standing at Bonner Hill Farms in Littlestown, Pa. The announcement was made Monday via the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association's social media accounts. The 15-year-old son of ...
RFK Jr. demands journal explain removal of vaccine study used to support his childhood immunization changes
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is demanding answers from a science journal on why a study regarding vaccination and sudden infant death was removed from the publication. …
Black Watch to bring watch shop, speakeasy-style bar downtown
The newest addition to Phillips Avenue opens this week -- bringing a concept unlike any seen downtown before.
Equip Expo adds new Paristown block party to its 2026 entertainment lineup
Entertainment includes a Welcome Reception at Churchill Downs, a Fourth Street Live concert with The Crashers and a new Paristown Block Party.
Unexpected Brewers success against star pitchers, like Blake Perkins
Blake Perkins has amazing numbers against Phillies star Christopher Sánchez in a small sample, and these other surprising Brewers also dominated aces.
IBX team wins first place at Google Code for the Cure Hackathon with AI prototype to make prior authorization clearer and fairer
A team of associates from Independence Blue Cross’s (IBX) Advanced Analytics and Data Science department won first place at a recent Google Code for the Cure Hackathon in New York City. The event, run by Google Cloud, brings together teams to build real-world AI solutions to health care challenges. In just four hours, the IBX team designed and built a fully functional prototype that shows how AI can make prior authorization decisions clearer, more consistent, and fair for patients and providers.
FBI issues urgent Kali365 security warning for Teams, Outlook, OneDrive users
The FBI released an urgent security warning to the public about a fast-acting scam targeting Microsoft 365 users on Teams, Outlook and OneDrive. The agency warned that the hacking platform Kali365 …
Minuteman Press Franchise Owners Justin & Christy Phillips Join President’s Club, Talk 11 Years in Business in Bradenton, FL
BRADENTON, Fla., June 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Justin and Christy Phillips are the owners of Minuteman Press in Bradenton, FL since May of 2...
Fitzgerald tells ‘UpFront’ Packers will be fine as he explores issues with NFL, Sports Broadcasting Act
Fresh off his hearing on Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald said the NFL may be violating the Sports Broadcasting Act and quickly dismissed concerns from the Green Bay Packers about any changes to the league's shared revenue model.
How former Dallas Cowboys player Jaylon Smith ‘cracked the code' in business
FRISCO — He opened the front door himself — the 30-year-old who has taken a sledgehammer to the trope about NFL players going broke. There’s Jaylon Smith, shuffling about as “So Amazing” by Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder resonates through his 5,000-square-foot home. His 9-year-old dog, Achilles, meanders. Follow the former Dallas Cowboys linebacker into his office, past the golden skull…
Music & Morsels festival will bring DJs, food and live entertainment to North Broad Street
The free event on June 26 will feature 25 DJs, food trucks, dance performances, games and community activities between Spring Garden and Poplar streets.
MLB power rankings: Brewers and The Miz rise after conquering Philly
Milwaukee moves up to No. 2 in.USA TODAY Sports power rankings behind their ace phenom.
L.A. Sites Included in Major Deal
Editor's note: A version of this story was originally published in the Orange County Business Journal. In one of the largest light industrial deals of the
Prominent Cambodian opposition politician seeks Supreme Court reversal of incitement conviction
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A prominent Cambodian opposition politician emerged Monday from his Supreme Court appeal to a crowd of cheering supporters, telling them he was anxious for judges to ove…
Novant Health Scotts Hill Medical Center hosts community day ahead of opening
Novant Health hosted a community day at Scotts Hill Medical Center ahead of its opening, giving neighbors their first look at New Hanover County’s first newly built hospital in decades.
Cubs' Struggles Should Lead to Ideal Phillies Trade
The Philadelphia Phillies moving on from one of their big prospects wouldn't come as much of a surprise at this trade deadline, though there are some others in the system who could be traded, even if they aren't as highly regarded as some of the other top players.
Vance says he’ll examine political future after midterms
Vice President Vance said he’ll explore next steps for his political career after the midterm elections as speculation about a potential 2028 presidential bid stirs. “Usha and I will absolute…
‘Banana Kid’ to ride again
The Blue Hill Public Library will host a free performance of "The Legend of the Banana Kid" by Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers on Saturday, June 27, at 6 p.m.
Senate Republican on FISA holdup: ‘Stop playing the politics’
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) on Sunday slammed her fellow lawmakers after both chambers of Congress failed to pass bills to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FI…
America’s public health programs must cover medically tailored meals
When you prescribe the nourishing meals that people require, they get healthier — and the system spends less.
Stephen A. Smith on political future: I only want ‘the big job’
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith laid out his political ambitions in a Sunday interview, saying he would only seek the presidency if he were to ever run for public office. “I’m not i…
Health department recalls all Clover Hill Dairy cheeses over ongoing listeria risk
Maryland health officials are warning consumers not to eat, sell or serve any cheese products made by Clover Hill Dairy in Mechanicsville after expanding a cons
Health department recalls all Clover Hill Dairy cheeses over ongoing listeria risk
Maryland health officials are warning consumers not to eat, sell or serve any cheese products made by Clover Hill Dairy in Mechanicsville after expanding a cons
‘Disclosure Day’: The truth is out there
Solid acting fuels this impressive sci-fi chiller
Health groups continue to step in following City on a Hill closure
Health groups continue to step in following City on a Hill closure
Freedom's Not Free Wears Down Favorite Sumter In Daytona Thriller
Freedom’s Not Free rallied furiously under Juan Hernandez in the final furlong and nailed favorite Sumter in the final jump to win a thrilling edition of the $100,000 Daytona Stakes (G3) going about 6½ furlongs on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita. Sumter (2-1), with Mike Smith aboard, ...
Brooks Koepka dealing with mystery injury heading into U.S. Open
Aead of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, Brooks Koepka is dealing with a mysterious injury.
Dead Gowns, Stancioff to perform in Blue Hill
Working Loose will host an “intimate evening performance featuring two of Maine’s most celebrated emerging artists: Dead Gowns and Louisa Stancioff,” on Sunday, June 28, at 7 p.m., a press
Phillies Face Outfield Crisis After Adolis Garcia's Season-Ending Injury
The Philadelphia Phillies have a decision to make after Adolis Garcia injury news.
Novant Health Scotts Hill Medical Center hosts community day ahead of opening
Families and their pets attended the event outside the facility. Attendees met staff, learned about services and took guided tours inside.
Sen. John Kennedy speaks at 'Politics and Eggs', says 'never say never' to presidential run
Sen. John Kennedy has carved out his own space in American politics. The senator from Louisiana charmed his 'Politics and Eggs' audience with unique insights from Capitol Hill.
Softball joins Oregon lineup of pro women’s sports with Cascade coming to Hillsboro
Athletes Unlimited Softball League, a six team professional women’s fastpitch league, will host games at the Hillsboro Ballpark.
Specials and Entertainment Await at Campi
Head down to The Ray Hotel Delray Beach to try out this chic Italian spot.
Warrior Sports founder Dave Morrow lists Cherry Hills mansion for $12M
Dave Morrow founded Warrior Sports in his Princeton dorm room and built it into a global sporting goods brand. Now, the entrepreneur is selling his Cherry Hills Village mansion for $12 million.
The incredible memory of red squirrels: what scientists have just discovered - Futura-Sciences
An autumn encounter in the forest Autumn is arriving in the heart of the forest. Trees put on their finest red, yellow, and orange coats, and the first carpets of fallen leaves crunch underfoot. There’s a fresh chill in the air. The forest hums with countless sounds: the soft rolling...
Five rental pitchers Phillies could target amid Andrew Painter's struggles
Andrew Painter’s sustained struggles and Aaron Nola’s underwhelming output has forced the Phillies hand to improve their rotation via trade.
In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe
In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. 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