Anne Applebaum
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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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Illustration: Mike McQuade; Janek Skarzynski / AFP / ... A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.
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Sergei Supinsky / Getty How Stalin Hid Ukraine's Famine From the World
In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe.
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Simon Prades Understanding Stalin
Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue.
