Archive - Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Putin's War Comes Home

Even Muscovites feel it

2 hrs ago

Kleptocracy Inc

Time to take stock

May 3

April 2026

Live with Preet Bharara

A recording from Anne Applebaum and Preet Bharara's live video

Apr 22 • Anne Applebaum and Preet Bharara

21:55

Goulash Authoritarianism

Is that what we want?

Apr 22 • Anne Applebaum

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

Orbán lost, and his American admirers can lose too

Apr 13 • Anne Applebaum

The Strangest Week

From Hormuz to Budapest to DC, nothing makes sense

Apr 9

Live with Chris Matthews

A recording from Anne Applebaum and Chris Matthews's live video

Apr 7 • Anne Applebaum, Chris Matthews, Ways and Means Democrats, and Mark Warner

1:00:52

March 2026

The Post-Reality Campaign

Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale

Mar 29

Trump Doesn't Remember What He's Done

Mar 21

The Memefication of War

What happens when your enemies, and your own soldiers, aren't treated as human beings

Mar 15

Collateral Damage

The impact of the war spreads beyond the Middle East

Mar 8 • Anne Applebaum

Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A recording from Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat's live video

Mar 3 • Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat

30:58

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