Anne Applebaum's Blog, page 6

The new censors won’t delete your words — they’ll drown them out

Social media has changed the meaning of censorship.

Regulate social media now. The future of democracy is at stake.

Facebook and Google won’t solve the problem for us.

Venezuela is how ‘illiberal democracy’ ends

Democracy, not more populism, is what the country needs most.

A crisis of conservatism creates gridlock on both sides of the Atlantic

American Republicans and British Tories have both lost their ideological bearings.

Theresa May experiences a historic parliamentary humiliation

But the Brexit disaster is a failure of the entire British political class.

In the wake of a political murder, the hate campaign continues

The assassination of a liberal politician in Poland brings no respite from vilification by his enemies

The anti-Europeans have a plan for crippling the European Union

Nationalists and populists are coordinating their efforts ahead of a crucial European vote.

The Trump-Putin revelations tell us what we knew all along

Bring on more evidence, which will reveal more of what we already know.

Why the world should be paying attention to Putin’s plans for Belarus

The Russian president’s nostalgia for the U.S.S.R. could prompt a new land grab.

Don’t let the nationalists steal patriotism

This message, from France’s Emmanuel Macron, was the most important political statement of 2018 and should resound in the new year.