For hundreds of millions of people, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a great triumph: The moment marked the end of… — 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
At times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them - even… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them. — 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
“Although the definition of an 'enemy of the state' changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Even in the best of times, the United States' ability to influence events in faraway places is limited. The tools we have,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it… — 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
“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes… — 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
