Anne Applebaum

Staff writer at The Atlantic. Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

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2024-07-10 12:51:10

Readers! Barnes and Noble are offering a discount on pre-orders of AUTOCRACY INC if you order between today and July 17...code is PREORDER25 and the link is here:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/autocracy-inc-anne-applebaum/1144406754?ean=9780385549936
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2024-07-09 15:07:05

If you are in NY, DC, Miami, Harrisburg or listening online...please join me to discuss AUTOCRACY INC, published July 23
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2024-07-07 08:55:32

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David Lammy: "You cannot get distracted by social media, cancel culture, and culture wars that I’m afraid are totally tangential to most people’s day-to-day lives.”

2024-07-07 08:49:16

"Instead of fighting ideological battles, [Keir] Starmer wanted the party to talk about ordinary people’s problems—advice that Democrats in the United States, and centrists around the world, could also stand to hear"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/07/uk-elections-2024-labour-party/678892/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31abmbxjdxLaV1lC4mwbV_g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-07-04 07:12:46

In 2018, Trump told his national security advisor, on the way to the NATO summit, that the US was leaving the alliance. @HenryJFoy retells the story.
Good thing he's not in office this week
https://www.ft.com/content/8985b970-0015-479f-9585-7a9b234715a4

2024-07-03 16:47:19

Three states really matter. Choose one of their governors. Hold debates. Let Harris compete too. Ruin the RNC - they can't attack their opponent; make the DNC the most-watched event of the year. That's what a political party that wants to win would do.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/replace-biden-strategic-plan/678884/

2024-07-01 21:55:13

16 New Books Coming in July -
From the New York Times...and including AUTOCRACY INC https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/books/review/new-july-summer-books.html

2024-06-23 18:42:01

The tabloidization of everything is all around us already. That market is saturated. We don’t need The Washington Post to join in as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/washington-post-will-lewis-publisher/678755/

2024-06-20 18:25:12

Excellent new podcast from Meribah Knight: "Supermajority" - on the conservative women who tried to bring gun control to Tennessee https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1200150197/supermajority-the-covenant-moms

2024-06-20 10:26:30

The Russians, unable to move forward on the ground, are now destroying Ukrainian cities from the air.
"The strategy seems to be to terrorize the cities enough that people will leave,”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-bombs-airfields-scorched-earth-58380b8625df7ed52a3b5472326559b8

2024-06-18 12:36:01

“It would be nice if people could think ahead that they’re going to get hit on the head with a brick before it hits you on the head."
Do not miss reading George Packer, on water, Phoenix, the future of America:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/07/phoenix-climate-drought-republican-politics/678494/

2024-06-16 13:01:38

My new book, Autocracy Inc, is published in five weeks. Read the introduction here:
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/autocracy-inc?r=177tk

2024-06-14 18:19:35

In which I talk to Bill Kristol about Ukraine, EU elections, US politics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTSjuTxUe_Y

2024-06-13 09:03:50

"A delusional, rambling felon known to have owned weapons would likely fail a security check for even a visit to the Oval Office"
From @RadioFreeTom
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/trump-sharks-las-vegas-rally-speech/678667/

2024-06-11 19:40:11

Trump is not America's Le Pen: He's worse
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/06/european-union-2024-parliamentary-election/678654/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK346nBXmZX1-dunz6R7fNlow&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-06-05 05:38:16

June 4, 1989. The greatest news day in history.
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/june-4-1989?r=177tk

2024-06-04 16:23:29

Donald Tusk, marking the 35th anniversary of Poland's 1989 elections, in Warsaw today
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2024-06-04 05:51:56

35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the year.
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.

2024-06-03 08:02:53

On the former Florida deputy sheriff who now manufactures propaganda for Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/business/mark-dougan-russia-disinformation.html

2024-06-02 07:47:22

I am told that the scale of the online anger and threats of violence are off the charts https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/31/tech/threats-doxxing-trump-jurors/index.html

2024-05-26 13:35:40

On the Russian sabotage campaign in Europe
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabotage-campaign-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u00.Rj97.FzyZG71EMH5B&smid=tw-share

2024-05-26 13:00:33

Russia's tactics are terrorist tactics, by any legal or moral definition. I wrote this in July, 2022, but after the deliberate targeting of a shopping center and a book warehouse in Kharkiv, it needs to be repeated.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/russia-war-crimes-terrorism-definition/670500/

2024-05-23 23:26:51

“There is a battle going on between two worldviews, but the divisions aren’t geographical. They’re in people’s heads.”
I talked to Hannah Rosin about the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda and more, for Radio Atlantic. Listen here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/05/russias-psychological-warfare-against-ukraine/678459/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

2024-05-21 23:26:24

Everyone should read Project Over Zero's report on LGBTQ scapegoating - it's an analysis of how this tactic has been used in authoritarian campaigns around the world
https://www.projectoverzero.org/media-and-publications/decoding-lgbtq-scapegoating

2024-05-20 21:31:40

In her new book, PLURALITY, Audrey Tang, one of the world's most interesting thinkers, argues we can harness digital technology to confront authoritarianism.
Video description here:
https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/announcements/plurality-launch/

2024-05-17 12:23:27

Georgia is now on the front line of the fight against autocracy. On Sunday at noon EST, please join me, Peter Pomerantsev and activists from the region to discuss https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-mass-protests-in-georgia-matter-far-beyond-its-borders-tickets-907535953467

2024-05-16 07:27:46

Georgians are protesting a law on "foreign agents." Abigail Skalka explains where this law came from, and how it resembles laws in Russia and other autocracies: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/a-bout-of-whataboutism/

2024-05-06 12:00:44

How Russia, China and other dictatorships around the world have coalesced to promote autocracy - and how some Americans and Europeans help them
Excerpt from my forthcoming book, on the cover of The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xgKh4wbI9WqxWEqzvYfefo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-04-22 00:36:49

The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday. Now it's time for the US and Europe to join forces and win the war
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/republican-ukraine-russia-aid/678150/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31Myo7gT0JLHWazLZU02WIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-04-20 10:50:24

On the day Congress is preparing, finally, to vote on aid for Ukraine, read Natalya Gumenyuk on how Ukraine's democracy is adjusting to a state of permanent war
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/brave-new-ukraine

2024-04-19 23:19:00

"My friend, a writer, texted last night from his trench to say a gentle goodbye. His unit is expecting an attack anytime, but they do not have the heavy artillery they need to repel the assault." read Oleksandra Matviichuk, on why Ukrainians keep fighting
https://iwpr.net/global-voices/why-ukraines-fight-must-continue

2024-04-17 20:49:23

Russia seeks to "disrupt the domestic politics of the US and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies." This has been clear for a long time, but
Catherine Belton of the Washington Post has the documentation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

2024-04-17 13:49:49

Heads up! My new book, AUTOCRACY, INC, will be published in July. It describes the network of dictators who work together - to keep themselves in power and to undermine the democratic world. Now that it’s in galleys I think you can pre-order with confidence: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/autocracy-inc-by-anne-applebaum/