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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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December 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For a change of pace...I wrote about Henry James's Venice.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I am a clue, again, in the @nytimes.com crossword puzzle. I guess "Henry's second wife" is too easy
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
US foreign policy also for sale in the Balkans:

"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
US foreign policy also for sale in the Balkans:

"The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
incidentally: If you want @theatlantic.com to email you my stories when they appear...Find my name on the website, click follow and sign up....
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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