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Moscow’s reaction was not what it had been to Solidarity’s rise a decade earlier. “This is entirely a matter to be decided by Poland,” one of Gorbachev’s top aides commented. And so on August 24, 1989, the first non-communist government in postwar Eastern Europe formally took power. The new prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was sufficiently shaken by what had happened that he fainted during his own installation ceremony.11

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

Al-Qaida and Islamic State cannot be destroyed without attacking the roots and placing the Saudi regime itself under

Blowback

Michael Lüders

As a girl, you watched, from a banana grove, your schoolhouse collapse after an American napalm raid. At five, you never stepped into a classroom again. Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all—but an orphan

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

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