From Gulag to Autocracy Inc: Anne Applebaum on why democracies can still win

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum traces the rise of modern autocracies from Soviet roots to today’s Russia–China axis, explains why Trump’s transactional politics weaken the West, and argues that democracies – from Hungary to Ukraine – can still fight back in a wide-ranging interview with CDE’s Ann Bernstein.