Katarzyna Skiba

With huge headphones propped over her white hair, Polish DJ and activist Wirginia Szmyt, 85, grooves alongside a drag queen on a float at the Warsaw pride parade.

With huge headphones propped over her white hair, Polish DJ and activist Wirginia Szmyt, 85, grooves alongside a drag queen on a float at the Warsaw pride parade.

More than seven months after Poland's longstanding conservative government lost national elections, its moderate successors are struggling to reconcile their coalition that includes traditional Catholics intent on blocking changes to the strictest abortion bans in Europe.

The Olympic torch is ready to be lit. But this Games would not be happening without the efforts of undocumented, low-paid workers

Once crypto-cautious Russia has started experimenting with the digital financial market, prompting new regulations, formal exchange markets, and, as President Vladimir Putin hopes, new means of skirting Western sanctions.

In last year's national elections in Poland, a breakdown of turnout and voter behavior showed that the margin of victory of the then-opposition was largely attributed to a strong turnout of younger women, mobilized by strict abortion restrictions of the conservative government. Could a similar scenario lift Vice President Kamala Harris to victory in the U.S. in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Updated Sept. 22, 2024 at 6:55 p.m.* PARIS — The global experiment that is the four-day school week is expanding to multiple countries around the world.

Students in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland, now have a four-day school week with non-traditional learning activities. Similar experiments in the US, Australia, and France aim to reduce stress and increase engagement. But is this new approach truly beneficial for students and parents? #EducationRevolution

Any other nation would cultivate the myth of a figure like former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, marginalizing his flaws, errors, and weaknesses. But in Poland, we have marginalized the greatness of a legend, whose modern thinking is relevant in present-day politics, writes Gazeta Wyborcza columnist Magdalena Środa.

Young men showed one of the most dramatic shifts toward Donald Trump in this year's election. But with rightward shifts among both men and women of the Gen Z demographic, the reality is reaching deeper — and farther — than most pollsters or analysts can explain.