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Byline: Anne Applebaum This is a dark moment for those who care about the rule of law in the United States, even for those who worry about the future of [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Among them are two former chancellors of the exchequer, an array of former cabinet ministers, and many old and familiar stalwarts of Conservative party conferences and Conservative [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Last week, at one of the last major events of his party election campaign, at the conclusion of his forty-year drive to become leader of the British [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum It may have been the worst recession to hit any economy in modern times. Between 2007 and 2014, Greece lost a quarter of its economy; hundreds of [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I visited Ukraine. I trekked out [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum I spent part of the D-Day anniversary this year in London -- not at the celebration in Portsmouth, England, but at the Royal United Services Institute's (RUSI) [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Britain is in the grip of an unprecedented political meltdown, a crisis on a scale that was unthinkable even six months ago. The prime minister has resigned [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Elections are always a Rorschach test -- people look at the results and see what they want to see. But the European parliamentary elections that took place [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum And, just like that, she's gone. Theresa May, the least successful British prime minister in living memory, has resigned. So much agonizing, so much plotting, so many [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum I've written a lot, it's true, about the new far-right parties in Europe in recent months, including their use of the Internet to amplify anger, the conspiracy [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Was it an invitation to cocktails or the start of a far-right conspiracy? In Europe, these days, it can be hard to tell. But this week Austrian [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum They were not members of the communist party, just sympathizers. They didn't carry out any murderous policies, just turned the other way when others did. Known as [...]

Byline: The Ranking Committee This is Round 15, and I'm Anne Applebaum. Does election forecasting get more accurate from a half-dozen time zones ahead? The Commentary From where I sit [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum 'A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colorful entry into the capital ... We shall expect the first [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum The Mueller report has been published Çö and I am vindicated. But not only me: Everyone who began writing about the weird connections between Donald Trump's presidential [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum It's not as though the relationship between the Russian government and the German far right, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has ever been a secret. Last [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Vasiliy the schoolteacher is late for work. He grabs his clock, he jumps out of bed, he shouts at his father, and he begs his mother to [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum At every fateful historical turning point -- every time a bad decision is taken or a wrong choice is made -- there is always someone who tries [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum The Russian government made extensive efforts, through hacking of email as well as information warfare, to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. Multiple members of the [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum 'She was dealt a bad hand.' 'She took a poisoned chalice.' From a great distance, it is possible to feel sorry for British Prime Minister Theresa May. [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum It begins with humor. The alt-right's jokes, a teenage friend assures me, are genuinely funny: They ridicule the pomposities of 'mainstream' culture, laugh at political correctness and [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In Madrid last week, a senior politician told me that he was watching the Brexit crisis with growing astonishment. 'England, the mother of parliaments,' he said, shaking [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Elements of the 2016 British referendum campaign have long seemed familiar to Americans. There was a close, controversial election, full of rancor and anger. There were a [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Yes, the details were engrossing. The photograph of the empty lunch table where President Trump and Kim Jong Un were supposed to celebrate the deal they never [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum George Washington thought they were 'potent engines' easily abused by 'cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men.' The English poet Alexander Pope thought they manipulated 'the madness of the [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum MUNICH -- Even inside a hotel so secure that it has body scanners at the entrance and snipers on the roof, Vice President Pence travels with a [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumIn recent months, academics, columnists and analysts have spilled gallons of ink analyzing the so-called 'populists' who are winning elections, or coming close to winning them, in so [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumA few days ago, ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom, discovered that a tool it was using to track political advertising on Facebook had been quietly disabled -- by [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumFor absolute proof that the ideological language of the 20th century is insufficient to describe the political realities of the 21st century, look no further than the international [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumIn the capital cities of the two great anglophone powers, public business has ground to a halt. On one side of the Atlantic, federal workers are lining up [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumWe guessed it. But now we know: There was no Plan B.After months of negotiation and many hours of debate, after long delays and rumors of more delays, [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumCorrection: An earlier version of this article misstated the length of Pawel Adamowicz's tenure as mayor of Gdansk, Poland. He was mayor for more than 20 years. The [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumThe brain of Homo sapiens has a fatal attraction to secrets. What we see before our eyes is never sufficient; we want to know what lies behind it, [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumIn theory, the European Union's parliamentary elections are the most international in the world. The winners serve in a multinational legislature. They speak to one another with the [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumOn Sept 10, 2001, I published a column about Belarus, the former Soviet republic squeezed between Russia and Europe. It described how the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko was [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum The reputation of Washington as a heartless, power-crazed city, a place for the hard-eyed and the coldblooded, is not entirely undeserved. There is a lot at stake [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumOn Nov. 11 -- a mere month-and-a-half ago -- world leaders gathered to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. There were a [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumI know it's a tiresome discussion. I know that most people would rather not be having it. I also know that the government shutdown is an appalling hardship [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumLONDONIn the weeks leading up to the declaration of war in 1914, the British were supremely confident. 'It will be over by Christmas' said the optimists; pessimists reckoned [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumIn almost any field of human endeavor -- football, acting, plumbing -- failure has a price. If you can't push the hockey puck into the goal, you get [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumDuring his first NATO summit in Brussels, President Trump refused to state his support for NATO's most important treaty obligation. During his first British visit, the president managed [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumFire, flares and tear gas scorched Paris on Saturday night; on Sunday morning, the carcasses of burned cars littered the streets, and graffiti covered the Arc de Triomphe. [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Like every country in Europe -- as well as the United States -- Poland has long had a far-right, neo-fascist fringe. It also had a tiny eco-warrior [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Right now, the threat to ordinary Americans from homegrown terrorists, radicalized by racist and nativist conspiracies they read on the Internet, is significantly higher than the threat [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In Manila, the traffic is so bad that it isn't worth driving anywhere during the day, because a couple of miles will take a couple of hours. [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum For the past several days, the Saudi Twittersphere has been awash with patriotism. Saudi accounts have tweeted, in Arabic, a '#message of love for Mohammed bin Salman' [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Twelve years ago this month, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist whose reporting came too close to the truth about Russia's war in Chechnya, was gunned down in the [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Now that the predictable result has been achieved, it's worth taking a moment to think about the longer-term impact of the bizarre, emotional events of the past [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Dutch authorities have photographs of four Russian military intelligence (GRU) operatives arriving at the Amsterdam airport last April, escorted by a member of the Russian embassy. They [...]