Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Many Americans, but Republicans in particular, long opposed the nationalization of industry and state-controlled companies that are more common in Europe. Instead,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In the United States, the world's most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In the 1980s and 1990s, anglophone conservatives were motivated by ideas so powerful that they spread from the United States and Britain… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Americans, as a rule, rarely compare themselves with other countries, so convinced are we that our system is superior, that our politicians… — 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
The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new.… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
All nations are imagined communities, and our imagined community is based on a uniquely inspiring set of principles. Americans have proved that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms… — 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
There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
