Anne Applebaum
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Anne Applebaum is a weekly columnist for The Post, writing on foreign affairs. Her column appears on Tuesdays.
Applebaum was a member of The Post’s editorial board from 2002 to 2006. She began working as a journalist in 1988, when she moved to Poland to become the Warsaw correspondent for The Economist. Later, she became the Foreign Editor, and then Deputy Editor, of the Spectator magazine in London. She was the Evening Standard's political editor for the 1997 British election campaign. For several years, she wrote the "Foreigners" column in Slate magazine. She is the author of “Gulag: A History” (2003) and “Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe” (1995).
In 1992, Applebaum won the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust award for journalism in the ex-Soviet Union. She was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction for “Gulag.”
Articles by Anne Applebaum
Ukraine's democratic evolution, on hold for now (February 9, 2010)
From roads to rhetoric: the paradox of leaving Davos (February 5, 2010)
India's model of reflective patriotism (January 26, 2010)
Haiti is dangerously close to new disasters (January 18, 2010)
We need a smarter way to fight the jihadi elite (January 12, 2010)
Still throwing money at doubtful tools for airport security (January 5, 2010)
Forecast for repressive regimes in the 'Teens' (December 29, 2009)
Anne Applebaum on devaluing humanity and hope in Copenhagen (December 15, 2009)
A preemptive strike against Muslim extremism in Switzerland (December 8, 2009)
Anne Applebaum weighs in on White House gate-crashers (November 30, 2009)
Anne Applebaum on the U.S. as a superpower without a partner (November 24, 2009)
Anne Applebaum on the political response to swine flu (November 17, 2009)
Anne Applebaum on after the Berlin Wall fell (November 9, 2009)
Merkel's quiet ascension in Germany could envelope Europe (November 3, 2009)
Where's the alliance in Afghanistan? (October 20, 2009)
Scandals Don't Dampen Berlusconi's Appeal in Italy (October 13, 2009)
Europe's Chance to Be Heard (October 6, 2009)
A Human Rights Campaign That Battles Iran From Within (September 29, 2009)
Will Obama Harness His Potential in Europe? (September 22, 2009)
Chipping Away at Free Speech (September 15, 2009)
Campaigning for Afghanistan (September 8, 2009)
The 1939 Invasion of Poland Still Echoes in European Politics (August 30, 2009)
In Afghanistan, Real Test Comes After the Election (August 19, 2009)
Watching for August's Alarms (August 11, 2009)
At Walter Reed, 'The Healing Power of Death Metal' (August 4, 2009)
Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton's Job to Define (July 28, 2009)
What Will Drive Clean Energy Inc. (July 14, 2009)
Obama Puts Medvedev Ahead of Putin (July 9, 2009)
Sarah Palin, the Mainstream Media, Patriotism and Hypocrisy (July 6, 2009)
Morocco Shows What's Possible (June 30, 2009)
Women May Pose the Deepest Threat to Iran's Regime (June 23, 2009)
Some Good in Iran's Bad Election (June 15, 2009)
Europe's Center-Right Parties Are Rewarded for Fiscal Restraint (June 9, 2009)
The North Korean Threat That China Fosters (June 2, 2009)
Scandal in the British Parliament (May 26, 2009)
Swine Flu: A Panic to Be Thankful For (May 12, 2009)
A Starbucks State of Mind (May 5, 2009)
Swine Flu: The WHO's Moment (April 28, 2009)
In Moldova, the Twitter Revolution That Wasn't (April 21, 2009)
Monticello's Makeover (April 14, 2009)
A Nuclear Fantasy (April 7, 2009)
A G-20 Summit for the Ages (March 31, 2009)
The Russia Reset Button Doesn't Work (March 24, 2009)
Cleanup Task for a Shining City (March 17, 2009)
Europe's Financial Discord (March 3, 2009)
Rights Actions That Speak Volumes (February 24, 2009)
Protectionism Anew (February 17, 2009)
Afghan Army Best Hope for U.S. Exit (February 10, 2009)
Snow and Recession: Relearning How to Weather a Storm (February 5, 2009)
Not Moved by Obama (January 27, 2009)
Crash-Landing Safely (January 20, 2009)
Russia's Ritual Cold Play (January 13, 2009)
Fighting to the End (January 6, 2009)
The Greatest Speeches of All Time (December 30, 2008)
What Fans the Athens Rioters' Rage (December 23, 2008)
How Bernard Madoff's Pyramid Scheme Will Erode Trust (December 16, 2008)
The Star Power of Lech Walesa, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama (December 9, 2008)
Russia's Caribbean Farce (December 2, 2008)
Mumbai and Lessons Learned (and Forgotten) on 9/11 (November 29, 2008)
Anne Applebaum on the Propaganda Battle over Georgia (November 20, 2008)
More Than a Rock Star (November 11, 2008)
Five Election Myths (November 4, 2008)
Why McCain Lost Me (October 28, 2008)
The Iceland Syndrome (October 21, 2008)
In Korea, Rituals of Absurdity (October 14, 2008)
Palin's Imaginary Washington (October 7, 2008)
The Smart Money in Afghanistan (September 24, 2008)
Willing To Win in Afghanistan? (September 16, 2008)
Class of '64 (September 4, 2008)
'Show of Power,' Indeed (August 26, 2008)
Russia's Flashback To 1968 (August 19, 2008)
When China Starved (August 12, 2008)
A Threat Explodes In Georgia (August 9, 2008)
Stronger Than the Gulag (August 5, 2008)
The Hour of Europe (July 29, 2008)
The Saudi Guide To Piety (July 22, 2008)
An Election Goes Abroad (July 15, 2008)
Planting Ideology (July 13, 2008)
Nationalism Gets Its Kicks (July 1, 2008)
No Job for Mr. Nice Guy (June 24, 2008)
Pity the Poor Eurocrats (June 17, 2008)
Whose Race Problem? (June 10, 2008)
Mugabe's Roman Holiday (June 3, 2008)
The Busiest Generation (May 27, 2008)
The Hitler Analogy (May 20, 2008)
Go Around the Generals (May 13, 2008)
A Warning Shot From Moscow? (May 6, 2008)
London's Personality Contest (April 29, 2008)
Radio To Stay Tuned To (April 22, 2008)
'Journey of Harmony' (April 15, 2008)
What a Headscarf Can Mean (April 1, 2008)
Olympic Fallacies (March 25, 2008)
Cellphone Pictures In Lhasa (March 18, 2008)
My So-Called Life Story (March 11, 2008)
Why Russia Holds 'Elections' (March 3, 2008)
The Consequences of Kosovo (February 19, 2008)
A Craven Canterbury Tale (February 12, 2008)
Love Gained, Love Lost (February 5, 2008)
Beauty and the East (January 29, 2008)
The Rot In Kenya's Politics (January 22, 2008)
Tiny Car, Tough Questions (January 15, 2008)
The Color Of an Advantage (January 8, 2008)
Two Benazir Bhuttos (January 1, 2008)
A Stanton For the Saudis (December 18, 2007)
A Vanishing Fantasy (December 11, 2007)
Teddy Bear Tyranny (December 4, 2007)
Russia's New Old Dissidents (November 27, 2007)
Collateral Damage (November 20, 2007)
Georgia's Leap Backward (November 13, 2007)
The New Fellow Travelers (November 6, 2007)
Free the Running Mates (October 30, 2007)
The Future Calling In Estonia (October 16, 2007)
A Dutch Retreat on Speech? (October 8, 2007)
Why They Don't Like Us (October 2, 2007)
Playing Democrat At Columbia (September 25, 2007)
Does This Mystery Matter? (September 18, 2007)
Bin Laden's Mortgage Calculation (September 11, 2007)
Like a Candle In the Wind (September 4, 2007)
What Presidents Don't Know (August 21, 2007)
Fighting On the Beaches (August 14, 2007)
Trickle-Down Lawlessness (July 24, 2007)
What Goes Up . . . (July 22, 2007)
No Magic Bullets For Iraq (July 17, 2007)
The End Of the Tories? (July 10, 2007)
Uncowed in London (July 3, 2007)
Words Of Mass Infuriation (June 19, 2007)
Forgotten Threat (June 12, 2007)
Farewell, New Europe (June 5, 2007)
For Estonia and NATO, A New Kind of War (May 22, 2007)
The Riddle That Is Blair (May 15, 2007)
Farewell, Jacques Chirac (May 8, 2007)
Sarkozy's New Europeans (May 1, 2007)
Russia's Agent of Change (April 24, 2007)
Two Protests, One Sign of Hope (April 17, 2007)
A Global Warm and Fuzzy Escape (April 10, 2007)
Europe's Birthday Blahs (March 27, 2007)
Tortured Credibility (March 20, 2007)
Engineers of the Soul (March 13, 2007)
An Archive With Tales To Tell (March 6, 2007)
The Gall To Speak Her Mind (February 27, 2007)
Our Strange Devotion to the Kremlin (February 20, 2007)
A Good Place to Have Aided Democracy (February 13, 2007)
Global Warming's Simple Remedy (February 6, 2007)
The Fight for Muslim Women (February 4, 2007)
Wisdom In Exile (January 23, 2007)
Ending an Opium War (January 16, 2007)
The Archbishop's Bargain -- and Poland's (January 9, 2007)
Hussein in His Place (January 1, 2007)
'Old Europe' Can Gloat, but Then What? (December 19, 2006)
Tehran's Holocaust Lesson (December 12, 2006)
A Familiar Mystery (December 5, 2006)
Why Only Darfur? (November 21, 2006)
What a Master Spy Couldn't Master (November 14, 2006)
Justice in Iraq (November 7, 2006)
Supporting Democracy -- Or Not (October 31, 2006)
Veiled Insult (October 24, 2006)
It's China's Problem (October 17, 2006)
A Moscow Murder Story (October 9, 2006)
An Opera In the Key Of Denial (October 3, 2006)
The Hardest Word (September 26, 2006)
Enough Apologies (September 19, 2006)
The Persistence of Memory (September 17, 2006)
So Long, Washington (for Now) (May 24, 2006)
Cartoon Warfare (May 17, 2006)
Dishonest Energy Debate (May 3, 2006)
At Duke, a Scandal In Search of Meaning (April 26, 2006)
Tilting at Windmills (April 19, 2006)
Poison and Power In Ukraine (April 12, 2006)
Washington Stories (March 22, 2006)
'Critically' Inadequate (March 15, 2006)
Skip St. Petersburg, Mr. Bush (March 8, 2006)
Tolerating the Intolerable (March 1, 2006)
Happy Anniversary, Nikita Khrushchev (February 22, 2006)
The Silencing Of Science (February 15, 2006)
A Cartoon's Portrait of America (February 8, 2006)
Fashions in Falsehood (February 2, 2006)
