Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this… — 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… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
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 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
The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
America's international broadcasters are an important part of the face we present to the world. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Do not read 'Hard Choices' if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world's foreign policy, let alone… — 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
There is nothing inevitable about this secret offshore world. It is not a fact of nature: Our laws created tax havens, and… — 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
All over the world, the Trump administration is pursuing a range of policies: tweeting insults at Maduro, negotiating with a defiant North… — 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
nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties,… — 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
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
