Anne Applebaum
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / ... A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Noah Berger / AP Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland
The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Laura Ingraham’s Descent Into Despair
At some point, her Reaganite optimism slowly hardened into something better described as a form of apocalyptic pessimism.
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Petr David Josek / AP Poland’s Rulers Made Up a ‘Rainbow Plague’
The president and his party ginned up fear of LGBTQ people—and rode that strategy to reelection.
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The Atlantic Trump Is Turning America Into the ‘Shithole Country’ He Fears
The president’s mindless nationalism has come to this: Americans are not welcome in Europe or Mexico.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Voice of America Will Sound Like Trump
Under the president’s control, U.S.-funded broadcasters could turn into a presidential propaganda machine.
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AP / Getty / The Atlantic * Resist the Urge to Simplify the Story
As protests multiply, uncertainty abounds—and Trump is using it to frighten Americans far from any violence.
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Borja Alegre History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty A Study in Leadership
A short film
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Nick Levesque The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump
The president created a leadership vacuum. China intends to fill it.
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Riccardo Pareggiani / NurPhoto / Getty Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed
In Hungary, the pandemic was just an excuse.
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Axel Schmidt / Reuters The People in Charge See an Opportunity
Around the world, rulers are using the pandemic as an excuse to grab more power. And the public is going along with it.
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Jason Redmond / Reuters The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff
Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.
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Marzio Toniolo / Reuters Epidemics Reveal the Truth About the Societies They Hit
A nation’s response to disaster speaks to its strengths—and to its dysfunctions.
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Emin Ozmen / Magnum Venezuela Is the Eerie Endgame of Modern Politics
Citizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization.
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Ed Reinke / AP This Is How Reaganism and Thatcherism End
In a hotel ballroom in Rome, leaders of the nationalist right took a grim view of Western liberal democracy—which Cold War conservatives deeply believed in.
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Francisco Seco / AP Images Brexit Reveals a Whole New Set of Political Wounds
As Britain withdraws from the EU, signs of future conflict are already evident.
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Anek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty The Disturbing Campaign Against Poland’s Judges
Democracy depends on the rule of law. But the leading party treats the Polish judiciary as a mere obstacle to power.
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Peter Andrews / Reuters Putin’s Big Lie
In a series of comments in late December, the Russian president appeared to blame Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Jerry Cooke / Corbis via Getty The False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
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