Mr. Ream laments the region’s perceived political and economic maladies. He asserts that “‘democratic backsliding’ is ...

The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World provides a compelling analysis of how modern autocracies, though ideologically ...

When one party tries to claim the concept for itself, will the other party’s voters reflexively oppose it?

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 224 pages I wanted to review Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy because it starts with a description ...

Putin's Russia and Xi's China are, of course, also in the mix. In Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc., released July 24, the journalist, historian, and senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns ...

Applebaum: That’s where you’re wrong, Peter. Freedom can be used against democracy. It’s happened before in American history, and it can happen again. I’m Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at ...

Anne Applebaum, Polish American Pulitzer-prize winning author and columnist, has written about several social and political aspects of the recent history of Eastern and Central Europe. She has also co ...

Anne Applebaum is a journalist, historian and staff writer at ‘The Atlantic’. Over the past three decades she has reported on different forms of authoritarian power, from the collapse of communism in ...

They talk with hosts Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev about how conformism and fear made it impossible to do their jobs. This is the first episode of Autocracy in America, a new five-part ...

New America VP and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen discusses the rise of authoritarianism with Anne Applebaum.

What constitutes an autocratic state? How did populism come to dominate global politics from 2012-2014? When and how will the ...

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) September 10, 2024 Applebaum concluded by saying that the conflict between autocracies and democracies is central to today’s global tensions, the PAP news ...