Elections are always a Rorschach test - people look at the results and see what they want to see. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
For some people, loud advocacy of Trump helps to cover up the deep doubt and even shame they feel about their support… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: 'We're going to tell people not what things were like,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Like SARS or Ebola, COVID-19 seems to be another disease that has jumped from the animal kingdom to the human and then… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
If we can't have a public debate because the information space is so polluted, or because people are afraid of the reactions… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
A lot of the Russian economy is built around people who are one way or another milking the state and taking money… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Navalny is a blogger-turned-activist, but he finds stuff and he puts together these very, very clever, very high production value videos which… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I didn't like doing predictions. It's certainly true that right now - and this could change tomorrow - but, right now there… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
Romney was an excellent businessman with a strong record as a public servant - whereas Trump inherited wealth, went bankrupt more than once, created… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
