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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Looks like people showed up in DC
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
update: the whole puzzle, thanks to a friend in Nashville
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
meanwhile, in season three of The Diplomat, the president is reading Autocracy Inc
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I don't know what it means, exactly, or whether it's good or bad. But I am a clue in the NYT crossword puzzle
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Congratulations to @mariaressa.bsky.social, as well as the representatives of the Bangladeshi and Venezuelan democracy movements who joined me at the Hillary Rodham Clinton awards at @giwps.bsky.social. Great to spend a day surrounded by people working hard to make their countries better.
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Kyiv at night
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Here we go?
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Since January 20, Russian air raids in Ukraine have intensified dramatically
September 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Finally got hold of the physical magazine www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Bad Guys are Winning, from 2021
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
September 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Photograph two: 2.52 pm
Same place

Your taxes are paying for the National Guard to spend the day doing nothing in particular
September 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Photograph one: 9.20 AM
Waterfront metro station, Washington DC
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Atlantic festival coming up! In NYC, September 18-20
I am speaking at various events, with @garrykasparov.bsky.social, @lynseyaddario.bsky.social and others.
Sign up here:
www.theatlantic.com/theatlanticf...
August 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
August 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
August 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Paperback, with new preface, available TODAY
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Sloppy, careless, toxic DOGE unfairly targeted an Afghan who was working with the US, and now his family are in Taliban prisons
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
August 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
But there is more. Together with the photographer @lynseyaddario.bsky.social we met extraordinary people, dedicated to helping the victims of violence, and still dreaming of a more justice, a more peaceful society. Lynsey's photos are in the next edition of @theatlantic.com make sure you get one...
August 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Paperback, with new introduction, arriving in the US August 26...
August 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM