Anne Applebaum

Staff writer at The Atlantic. Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

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2026-02-28 18:59:52 UTC

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39POyonwPE2yyusxSA7Qtyk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-02-24 10:11:20 UTC

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

2026-02-23 01:53:51 UTC

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they promised would be preserved
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/trump-state-department-ending-aid-seven-african-countries/686106/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xzCPg7Z1oVNh5eTu3qO-Zc

2026-02-16 18:54:48 UTC

Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3yuJNKCeSUHqZt7t_axS7lQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-02-06 12:04:37 UTC

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/how-autocrats-meddle-with-elections/685383/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-tileaFXnSfZDTI7SgDZJQ

2026-02-05 14:39:59 UTC

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.

2026-01-19 15:24:59 UTC

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36YjEx6PWcaiwVCToEIk3KY

2026-01-13 04:45:01 UTC

Read Frank Foer's amazing essay on the civil servants we have lost
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews/685321/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK30xgoY3fXoYOjD66qhzz448

2026-01-09 13:07:54 UTC

In the new season of Autocracy in America, I will ask how the Trump White House is rewriting the rules of US politics.
First episode: How ICE and the National Guard are being used not just to enforce immigration, but to project power
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BajijN7B5aYQLzca4fgd4

2026-01-06 15:58:46 UTC

Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/db53b592-55b4-4ec4-8c73-39a0f73b2d8b

2026-01-04 08:25:26 UTC

With David Frum, discussing Venezuela, spheres of influence and what Trump's actions mean for America and the world
https://youtu.be/5oSRcLWxzYA?si=GfI0-SiIP867UpgU

2025-12-16 23:13:25 UTC

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-democracy/685270/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ws_RC4Aaob-Nw76Fh2AJk0
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2025-12-16 14:00:15 UTC

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-democracy/685270/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35ibcb27LjcQKIf6tB8WqQM

2025-12-10 12:54:58 UTC

An earlier version of Trump's National Security Strategy specifically said that the US should try to break up the EU, to get Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to leave
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/
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2025-12-08 10:59:28 UTC

In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33X0lgpfLuVN_3VQ2IrzF5k

2025-12-06 15:56:13 UTC

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2025-11-29 05:34:18 UTC

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290?st=V4zco4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

2025-11-22 21:45:58 UTC

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3x5H8-x30wTOq6lDtv0xjW4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-11-08 19:42:47 UTC

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/08/venezuelans-begin-fleeing-us-protections-end-threat-war-looms/

2025-11-05 04:47:20 UTC

Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year. Sometimes called NatSec Democrats, they can also be called Service Democrats, since they come from organizations that asked them to swear oaths to serve Americans
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/national-security-democrats-patriotism/679697/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35_VMty72u1gocPwsFwfZO8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-10-27 20:18:14 UTC

At a time of multiple international crises, the Pentagon’s official positions will be relayed by Timcast, The Epoch Times, LindellTV and the Gateway Pundit...which means that many people simply won’t believe Pentagon statements at all.
And that might be the point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/pentagon-press-restrictions-new-media-propaganda/684706/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33XJXeQPf0zAn-u1f40jN3g

2025-10-20 21:17:59 UTC

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right into a long authoritarian tradition
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-no-kings-day-protest-ai-poop/684621/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35delNKCGndW27iEDyVzf-o

2025-10-10 12:44:07 UTC

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/maria-machado-nobel-peace-prize/684510/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wbq1QoVCkMhawJWbnT-zJw

2025-10-02 13:11:14 UTC

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

2025-09-26 10:55:05 UTC

Essential reading
https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned

2025-09-25 18:15:01 UTC

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
On Ukraine's campaign against Russian oil:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/ukraines-strategy-to-win-the-war/684356/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xoWkP29Du3xcPHNncGcN3E

2025-09-18 11:23:56 UTC

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31TvZdPRROtC2z6emx3zg20&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-08-29 13:01:06 UTC

https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/112/179/505/697/520/original/2f5cbdb47c840b46.jpg

2025-08-27 22:19:24 UTC

The fire sale at the end of the empire https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/usaid-fire-sale-donation-auction/684012/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK333KEytRa46TNZSowZhJ_q4

2025-08-27 08:39:57 UTC

US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally
https://amp.dw.com/en/denmark-summons-us-envoy-over-greenland-reports/a-73777456

2025-08-22 22:11:22 UTC

The war is over when the Russians understand that they can't win. Last week's summits did not help us reach that point
Listen to Radio Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/08/peace-ukraine-not-real-estate-deal/683935/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-t2Vye_YlM2t5JWRPpEvIk

2025-08-20 11:34:40 UTC

Fictitious conspiracies are easier to pursue since there's no chance that reality will intervene https://apnews.com/article/trump-security-clearances-revoked-ad7f95a222ad9277452d2de995b70619

2025-08-18 11:14:21 UTC

From the Telegram channel of RT, Russian state media. A Russian assault vehicle, now flying two flags
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/049/474/239/720/503/original/bfca2b5e6ed1723e.mp4

2025-08-16 15:31:56 UTC

Trump has no cards https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zcQc9j5aDXFzHySIE703JY

2025-08-14 05:34:21 UTC

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
"Original reporting from embassies has been removed, replaced with language clearly—and in a few cases ludicrously—manipulated by political appointees"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-state-department-human-rights-report/683852/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39dZ53TrurT1b0wzN5h-LdU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-08-11 19:39:12 UTC

With Sam Harris, talking about the new world order, or lack thereof
https://samharris.org/episode/SECB5253720

2025-08-07 07:04:46 UTC

On NPR, talking about war, nihilism and what it means for the world to abandon Sudan https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493499/journalist-says-greed-nihilism-and-transnationalism-are-fueling-sudans-conflict

2025-08-06 11:48:40 UTC

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak. Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum, amplifying the conflict. In Sudan, the liberal world order has ended, and nothing has replaced it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/sudan-civil-war-humanitarian-crisis/683563/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK376-XkgknNwkyNXgTPjso0U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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2025-07-15 11:58:07 UTC

Russia relieved by unserious US tariff threat. Moscow stock exchange rose 2.7%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g6e8zvd4o

2025-07-10 19:09:32 UTC

"Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that President Donald Trump and his inner circle have perpetrated in recent months. Its brazenness, volume, and variety defy historical comparison"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-corruption-foreign-regimes/683487/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xSta40_DslDm1uSm0fgwF0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-07-05 13:10:12 UTC

A senior FBI officer resigns
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

2025-07-04 17:36:19 UTC

"Sanctions are disappearing, weapons are diminishing, counterpropaganda is harder to hear. All of that will encourage Putin to go further—not just to try to defeat Ukraine but to divide Europe, mortally damage NATO, and reduce the power and influence of the United States around the world"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38jq6vvO2FygkuCulUcodbA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-06-27 15:11:25 UTC

New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/coming-soon-a-new-season-of-autocracy-in-america/683336/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-y6I2AoghNWkjNRP4-YNxE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-05-30 17:20:26 UTC

Musk destroyed the US civil service, abruptly cancelled aid programs around the world, killing people and damaging US soft power. His teams stole data, harmed science, broke the law. "I was on drugs and had family issues" is not an excuse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

2025-05-20 02:46:00 UTC

Nobody in Ukraine thinks the war will end soon.
But neither are they frightened
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/ukraine-war-russia-trump-putin/682843/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xoA-EFwGVpd2fTD9CUeeWs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-05-01 22:40:50 UTC

"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason"
Read The Atlantic, on a State Dept witch hunt
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-diplomacy-darren-beattie/682665/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3795gR3HAw9XxokDydJo51U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-14 14:17:29 UTC

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
On Kleptocracy Inc, in the Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31IaZ6rKrlSr_YVHIOs-fHQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-07 16:09:37 UTC

Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32-nUUL00S0iJYV6XMGPBZo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-07 01:07:48 UTC

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

2025-03-31 10:47:14 UTC

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

2025-03-26 20:37:58 UTC

In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

2025-03-26 13:29:05 UTC

Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_X2K7ulsnjDWC1R1jDQds4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-03-21 23:41:22 UTC

More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/

2025-03-21 08:43:25 UTC

I talked to Scott Dworkin about patterns of autocratic takeover
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/anne-applebaum-on-democracys-tipping

2025-03-16 06:47:53 UTC

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun
"Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/15/oklahoma-social-studies-2020-election/

2025-03-15 21:13:15 UTC

China spends billions on broadcasting around the world. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk have just begun to destroy US broadcasting around the world. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/

2025-03-13 00:01:20 UTC

Read my former colleague Ruth Marcus, explaining why she left the Washington Post
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

2025-02-27 19:18:32 UTC

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I have never "written for AEI" and not sure what that means. I was on their list as an unpaid associate fellow there 20 years ago, maybe more. There have been good scholars there in the past.
If that bothers you, don't listen to the interview.

2025-02-26 06:14:38 UTC

I talked to Bill Kristol about Germany, Europe, Ukraine, Russia and...the US
Listen here:
https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation/anne-applebaum-on-ukraine-europe-and-the-us/

2025-02-24 20:36:55 UTC

If America has different allies, are we the same kind of country?
I made a podcast episode discussing exactly this last summer
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/kleptocracy-club/680022/

2025-02-24 19:43:11 UTC

On Putin's three years of humiliation
He can't win unless we let him
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putins-three-years-of-humiliation/681810/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39jxnhFDI3bKrjUti3Al60U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-24 19:40:56 UTC

"Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project."
The Polish foreign minister, at the UN today
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/114/060/557/287/748/104/original/576f6a05aed9fce1.mp4

2025-02-20 19:02:11 UTC

George Packer on the meaning of the death of USAID
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/trump-maga-national-interest-usaid-destruction/681735/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wFgqpYRlen_JuccWRu-iJA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-20 17:24:23 UTC

The end of the postwar era
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/trump-ukraine-postwar-world/681745/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31RhLcP-tNiCRWkRZwfyq10&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-14 08:52:29 UTC

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31RSmXtcM-PiWNw1o3vgGUs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-11 13:39:27 UTC

How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps
https://open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p/putins-authoritarian-playbook?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=177tk

2025-02-06 20:29:51 UTC

Kleptocracy is back in business
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/113/958/831/111/442/970/original/1d84860648c0c210.jpg

2025-02-05 06:38:25 UTC

From @npub1psa…j5uh : some of the government's top tech experts are being asked to do things that are "clearly illegal"
https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

2025-02-03 02:44:32 UTC

Official US government policy is now to destroy the Canadian economy, remove Canadian sovereignty and annex Canada
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/113/937/652/563/012/085/original/fafa283366c9b74a.jpeg

2025-01-28 15:39:47 UTC

Americans who think they might be targets for retribution are "bracing for criminal investigations, tax audits, congressional or state legislative scrutiny, arrests, online harassment and physical threats"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/trump-retribution-preparation-election-officials/

2025-01-27 21:33:06 UTC

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zd9JdZYQ1qXmZ-Tzbyq_Go&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-01-07 13:59:58 UTC

Forget the division of left and right. We now live in the grip of a completely different kind of politics. This is the age of Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition and the cultivation of fear https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/trump-populist-conspiracism-autocracy-rfk-jr/681088/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zko9x4JRKwzJUHDjeYMn24&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-01-02 01:52:30 UTC

If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent Wall Street Journal description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/sleeper-agents-putin-global-hunt-a7978f84?st=BBMjiw&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

2024-12-23 08:44:03 UTC

Maria Corina Machado is in hiding. Although her movement won the election, Venezuela's dictatorial president has not left office. Still, she told me, she's an optimist:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/venezuela-opposition-machado-optimism/681148/

2024-12-22 09:47:37 UTC

Did Musk tank a spending bill because it would have harmed his business in China?
From The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china/
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2024-12-10 07:36:22 UTC

"As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ztZ_XKRcZaOT8cFQEZBbLw

2024-12-08 18:06:40 UTC

And there it is: Assad in Moscow.
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/syria-civil-war-12-08-2024/index.html#cm4fwaag2001u3b6uizxnlgs8

2024-12-08 17:36:55 UTC

In my book, Twilight of Democracy, I described how autocratic regimes use conspiracy theories as loyalty tests...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

2024-12-08 14:50:25 UTC

Why dictatorships fail gradually, and then suddenly, all at once
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/

2024-11-23 06:50:32 UTC

In which I discuss patterns of "state capture" with Ezra Klein
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-anne-applebaum.html

2024-11-15 02:16:53 UTC

Yes. He's a crank.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/rfk-jr-hhs-sanewashing/680663/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-z8QcWNs4NTh20aH6uhb2U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-11-12 17:07:00 UTC

- reply

And until then? Biden should send all of the allocated weapons, let the Ukrainians hit targets in Russia with American and European missiles, and above all pressure the Europeans, finally, to release the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. No time to lose. Gift link, from the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-11-12 17:06:37 UTC

“Land for peace” sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting to destroy Ukraine as a nation. When the next U.S. president takes office he will therefore face the same choices : help Putin win, or help him lose.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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2024-11-05 22:24:51 UTC

OK, this is funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qI0LTmSr38

2024-11-05 13:05:30 UTC

One final thing to read today, from @npub1n5c…mpqj: why we are going into this election ill-prepared to counter bogus narratives about voter fraud
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-maga-propaganda-machine-has-successfully

2024-11-03 13:14:59 UTC

On Vermin. Some closing thoughts
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/on-vermin?r=177tk

2024-11-01 10:11:23 UTC

With five days to go before the election, take the time to listen to my five-part podcast series, Autocracy in America. There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States - and we can stop them.
Also on Spotify, Apple, YouTube
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/
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2024-10-29 17:28:34 UTC

"People need to decide if they want to live in a U.S. version of an oligarchy, whether they want us to go down the same kind of path as Russia. They’ll make that decision at the ballot box."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820

2024-10-28 20:34:36 UTC

There are two Republican campaigns. One is ugly and angry but normal, seeking to get people to vote.
The other one preparing people to accept an assault on the electoral system, if Trump loses, or on the political system, if he wins. Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/maidison-square-garden-election-fraud/680429/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36Ka554OqzSbHzHo9_Vj1FE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-26 18:16:06 UTC

Ten days before the election, take the time to listen to my five part podcast,, Autocracy in America. It describes the autocratic behaviors already visible in America - which we still have the power to stop.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/

2024-10-23 18:16:39 UTC

On Trump, his extreme rhetoric, his thing for Hitler and why so many people want to pretend it really isn't that bad. With Jeff Goldberg and Morning Joe
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/jeffrey-goldberg-reflects-on-trump-s-comprehensive-ignorance-of-history-222459461880

2024-10-22 08:16:53 UTC

In Washington DC October 29, a week from today? Come hear me and Peter Pomerantsev discuss "Autocracy in America" our podcast that talks about the autocratic behaviors and practices already flourishing in America...
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/autocracy-in-america-live-tickets-1043028003837
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2024-10-21 12:40:53 UTC

Moldova votes for the EU, despite a huge Russian influence and vote-buying campaign. It was not subtle. A BBC producer "heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnr5qdxe7o

2024-10-21 07:53:05 UTC

Against Pessimism
my German Peace Prize lecture, reprinted in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/russia-ukraine-democracy-applebaum/680318/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36JMCw9mt_Sil3JbsZzR6Dc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-19 15:28:45 UTC

South Korean news agency confirms that 10k North Korean soldiers will be fighting against Ukraine https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241018006856315

2024-10-18 14:20:52 UTC

Blood poison, vermin, the 'enemy within': The language of the the 1930s has not been used successfully in modern American politics. But maybe that's because no one, before now, has tried
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_BAdwxgTnhDQOES_Ka50h0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-18 11:34:18 UTC

Why does Trump sound like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini? Because he thinks it will work
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34vU4G4QMrQTKJxena1OKFY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-15 19:47:11 UTC

No doubts this time: We can be absolutely certain that an attempt will be made to steal the 2024 election if Kamala Harris wins.
What can you do?
Start preparing now: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/citizens-guide-defending-2024-election/680254/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_lC0p-VEgLvKuv9V1to9dw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-13 08:51:24 UTC

“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015 conditioning them … step by step instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

2024-10-12 09:55:40 UTC

just because you aren't on X anymore doesn't mean that it isn't shaping the reality of the far right. from @npub1n5c…mpqj
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/rumors-x-twitter-musk/680219/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3y-aDgCNw7R-gBYPDA5570Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share