Anne Applebaum's Blog, page 21

For the U.S.-European alliance, everything has changed

American influence on the continent is at its weakest in recent memory.

There is no one right way to react to terror. There is a wrong way.

While venting after tragedy is understandable, politicizing those emotions will only make things worse.

Trump’s bizarre and un-American visit to Saudi Arabia

President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia was bizarre, unseemly and unethical.

Yes, GOP leaders were making a joke about Putin and Trump. But then it sunk in.

It was a joke. People laughed. But what kind of a joke was it?

The experts were right: Trump isn’t fit to be president

None of Trump’s latest disastrous decisions was part of a deliberate plan.

Don’t forget those smiling images of Trump and the Russians

The Russians are comfortable with the president’s greed, his dishonesty and his cynicism about the rights of others.

Emmanuel Macron’s extraordinary political achievement

In his victory speech, the new French president sought to unite his country rather than to underline its divisions.

How Trump makes dictators stronger

Expect the world to look elsewhere for moral leadership.

Ivanka Trump’s White House role is a symbol of democratic decline

That’s how the world sees it, if a panel in Germany is anything to go on.

France’s election reveals a new political divide

France became the first large Western country to ditch, in a major election, the center-right/center-left political-party structure that has dominated European politics for decades.