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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 Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, a pro-Trumper or a never-Trumper, an inhabitant of a blue state or a red state, you owe it to yourself [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In the nearly 30 years that have elapsed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, I doubt whether a single day has gone by without [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum When the history of this era is written, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, will be remembered as the day when venerable Anglo-American democratic institutions fought back against Anglo-American [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum He was an ordinary schoolteacher, living at home with his parents, disrespected by his pupils, ignored by an unjust society. But finally he had enough: Thinking nobody [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum 'State capture' is a form of systemic corruption in which private companies have improper influence on the state: They use their money to 'buy' whole parts of [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of confidence in universal human rights, [...]

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 You could call it a constitutional crisis, and many are doing so. The speaker of the House of Commons has used the expression 'constitutional outrage,' and some [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum It has a lovely, wind-swept coastline and a bicycle-friendly capital city. It has some cutting-edge restaurants, internationally competitive companies, impressive wind farms, a spectacular opera house. It [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum We live in an era of declining faith in elected leaders, declining faith in the institutions of the West, declining faith in democracy itself. In the United [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Alongside the flat-earthers, 9/11 truthers and Obama-birthers, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have always had a special distinction: They can do immediate and specific damage in a way [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Across Europe, and indeed around the world, America's allies have developed a bunker mentality. They are waiting, hands over their ears, for the assault to end, for [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In principle, it shouldn't matter whether Robert Mueller speaks a lot or a little, whether he is charming or charmless, whether he stumbles occasionally or does not [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Last week, at one of the last major events of his party election campaign, at the conclusion of his 40-year drive to become leader of the British [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In the short span of a few days, two very different events unfolded that will, together, shape American politics for the next decade. At a rally in [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In June 2018, the newly elected Italian government refused to allow the Aquarius, a ship carrying 600 refugees, to dock in an Italian port. This story was [...]

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 'The Tories, in their terror, have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street.' Those are the words of Sir Max Hastings, writing in the [...]

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 Imagine there was a completely secret, perfectly legal way to bribe a government official. Well, let's not say 'bribe': Let's imagine that you could channel money to [...]

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 theories [...]

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 last week [...]

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: 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 [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum It is dawn in the Spanish countryside. A man is walking, and then running, in slow motion. He climbs a fence. He crosses a field of wheat [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum The Mueller report has been published - 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, he begs his mother to iron [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum At the national level, support is dropping. More than half of French people now say they want the gilets jaunes - the yellow-jacketed protesters with a record [...]

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 Mike Pence travels with [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Because I write books about Soviet history, and because I often speak about them to U.S. or European audiences, I am frequently forced to confront the problem [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum In 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 [...]

Byline: Anne ApplebaumWinston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth. Each day, the hero of George Orwell's '1984' 'corrects' old newspapers to make sure that the information is in still [...]

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, [...]