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

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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/

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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

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

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"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/

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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

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

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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.

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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/

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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

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The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.

my conversation with Walter Isaacson on Ukraine, Russia, the GOP and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBL7Bfh_LY&t=1s

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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

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"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/house-vote-ukraine-israel-aid-johnson/

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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

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"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

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Just been told that my upcoming book AUTOCRACY, INC is 25% off to preorder if you are a Barnes and Noble member

today and tomorrow.
code is PREORDER25 at checkout

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/autocracy-inc-anne-applebaum/1144406754?ean=9780385549936

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The upshot of this scientific paper, published in Nature, is, as one of the authors, Walter Quattrochiocchi told me, that “different social media with different business models, on different topics, at different times (and so different social norms) produce similar interaction patterns. Such a configuration supports the hypothesis that the main driver of toxicity is human behavior more than social media platforms”

Discuss

nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y

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from VSquare Project:
How Orban and Putin worked together in Slovakia, in 2020. Which possibly suggests how they might be working together elsewhere, right now

https://vsquare.org/slovakia-elections-peter-pellegrini-russia-hungary-orban-szijjarto/

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Donald Trump, who is not the president, is using a minority of Republicans to hand a victory to Russia, and to weaken American power and credibility. Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/one-global-issue-trump-cares-about/677592/

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On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the war

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/02/what-two-years-war-did-ukraine/677515/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33y0y4qDFBZYDb1JMn8ciYE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Imagine a country where putting flowers beside a memorial is dangerous https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/russia-detentions-navalny-memorials.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Navalny stood for civic courage
That's why Putin had to destroy him: to show courage is useless https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wKEsvMRS2snpMP9qzIx2dM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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“We use ammunition now only if the situation is critical"
“The lives of our boys depend on” U.S. funding
https://www.wsj.com/world/ukrainian-soldiers-forced-to-tune-in-to-washington-politics-922e3dd7

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Trump still doesn't understand how NATO works, he still thinks allies "owe us money" and he's now sending a signal to Russia to attack them while the crowd cheers. This is an invitation to Putin to broaden the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills

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For two years, the Biden administration led an international coalition to provide military aid to Ukraine. Majorities in the U.S. and in Congress continue to support Ukraine. Now, a minority of Republicans are preparing to cut it all off.

If they do, the US is at risk of seeming not just like an unreliable ally, but an unserious ally https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/us-congress-support-ukraine-war/677256/

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A series of different, bad choices led to this moment, none of which make any sense to foreigners (and I have tried to explain to many). It looks to them like the American political system has been hijacked by a radical, pro-Russian faction, led a disgraced ex-president.

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Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)

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"The russian government has jailed virtually every individual who has dared to speak out against its repressive political system in recent years. It has effectively become a carceral state, in which hundreds of Russians and an untold number of Ukrainians, including thousands of children, have been taken hostage by the Kremlin, their whereabouts, in many cases, unknown."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/russian-opposition-political-prisoners-vladimir-kara-murza/677083/

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