Anne Applebaum

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Writer at Open Letters from Anne Applebaum

@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on the blue site

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When the Revolution Starts to Fail

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Anne Applebaum

Revolutions have a logic. The revolutionaries start with a big, transformative, impossible goal. They want to remake society, smash existing institutions, replace them with something different. They know they will do damage on the road to their utopia, and they know people will object. Committed to their ideology, the revolutionaries pursue their goals anyway. Inevitably, a crisis appears.
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Anne Applebaum

Revolutions have a logic. The revolutionaries start with a big, transformative, impossible goal. They want to remake society, smash existing institutions, replace them with something different. They know they will do damage on the road to their utopia, and they know people will object. Committed to their ideology, the revolutionaries pursue their goals anyway. Inevitably, a crisis appears.
Every Election Is Now Existential

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Anne Applebaum

A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world. A few days before the Polish presidential election on Sunday, a Polish friend of mine received an unexpected message from someone she had not seen for 20 years. The woman had found my friend on Facebook, noticed that she was supporting the candidacy of Rafał Trzaskowski—the mayor of Warsaw, a liberal centrist—and begged her to change her mind.
Every Election Is Now Existential

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Anne Applebaum

A few days before the Polish presidential election on Sunday, a Polish friend of mine received an unexpected message from someone she had not seen for 20 years. The woman had found my friend on Facebook, noticed that she was supporting the candidacy of Rafał Trzaskowski—the mayor of Warsaw, a liberal centrist—and begged her to change her mind.
O modelo de Viktor Orbán na Hungria encanta Donald Trump, mas os números contam uma história diferente

3 weeks ago | expresso.pt | Anne Applebaum

Hotéis luxuosos e restaurantes sofisticados dominam agora o centro de Budapeste, uma cidade outrora conhecida pelas suas fachadas degradadas. No centro da cidade surgiram também novos monumentos. Um deles, uma cópia do memorial da Guerra do Vietname em Washington, D.C., recorda o império perdido da Hungria no século XIX.
The Best Politics Books of 2025: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing

1 month ago | fivebooks.com | Edward Wong |Anne Applebaum |Mishal Husain |Victoria Amelina

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China Growing up, Edward Wong didn’t hear his father talk much about the older man’s life in China. Perhaps that’s why Wong found himself retracing the elder Wong’s footsteps through the borderlands of the Chinese empire, in his work as the New York Times’s Beijing correspondent.
"If not me, then who?": Applebaum's BBC battles against Russian propagandist in 2014

1 month ago | euromaidanpress.com | Anne Applebaum

The third day of the Lviv Media Forum 2025 featured a powerful panel discussion titled “Stronger than Strongmen: Navigating the Twilight of Democracy Toward Freedom.” The event featured Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and commentator on international affairs with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and authoritarianism. Applebaum currently serves as a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Die Illusion vom Kriegsende

1 month ago | focusplus.de | Anne Applebaum

Weitere Infos zu diesem Bild anzeigenGastbeitrag von Anne ApplebaumDie Illusion vom Kriegsende20.05.2025, 23:43Die Welt hofft auf einen Durchbruch bei den Friedensverhandlungen. Doch Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin und auch niemand aus seinem Umfeld hat je explizit erklärt, dass er die Kämpfe beenden will, erinnert Anne Applebaum. Ein Kommentar von Anne ApplebaumIhr Browser blockiert technisch notwendige Inhalte von Drittanbietern.
Nobody in Ukraine Thinks the War Will End Soon

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Anne Applebaum

On Saturday, I asked Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, in western Ukraine, whether he expected the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul to lead to a cease-fire. “No,” he told me. Later, I asked the audience at the Lviv Media Forum whether any of them expected a cease-fire soon. About 200 journalists and editors were in the room. No one raised their hand. Many laughed.
Con Trump il conflitto d’interessi fa parte del sistema

1 month ago | internazionale.it | Anne Applebaum

Il 4 aprile, mentre la borsa precipitava, Donald Trump ha lasciato Washington. Ma non è andato a New York per capire cosa stava succedendo a Wall street, e nemmeno a Dover, nel Delaware, ad accogliere i corpi di quattro militari statunitensi rimasti uccisi in un incidente in Lituania. Il presidente è volato in Florida, nel suo Doral golf resort, dove si stava svolgendo una tappa del torneo di Liv golf, un torneo sponsorizzato dal governo saudita.