The Resolute desk as President Donald Trump, center signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. The Resolute desk as President Donald ...
Happy Thursday! In today’s newsletter, we examine the world’s declining number of democracies, solutions to America’s housing crisis, and the impacts of pharmaceutical tariffs. Topline: From World War ...
Global freedom and democracy have been declining for two decades, reaching historic lows, according to two reports just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Freedom House. It's hard to ...
Global freedom and democracy have been declining for two decades, reaching historic lows, according to two reports just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Freedom House. To those of us ...
Autocracy in America is scheduled to debut on TheAtlantic.com on Sept. 6 and will feature two hosts who are both senior fellows for the SNF Agora Institute: Peter Pomerantsev and Anne Applebaum, who ...
There are things we all can do to push back against and mitigate the autocratic turn our nation has taken. The Supreme Court announced a fast-track argument schedule in the most consequential voting ...
In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously addressed the challenge of defining hard-core pornography by stating, “I know it when I see it.” If we apply that standard to President Donald ...
The historic prisoner release from Russia was thanks to the diplomatic work of a group of democracies to free over a dozen people from the autocratic regime of Vladimir Putin. Anne Applebaum's new ...