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
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)
