Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. She is the author of Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Her most recent books are New York Times best sellers Autocracy, Inc. and Twilight of Democracy. Anne was a Washington Post columnist for 15 years and a member of the editorial board. She also served as deputy editor of The Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.

About The Atlantic

The Atlantic was founded in 1857 as a magazine of politics, the arts, and letters, with a mission to understand the American idea. Today that work has intensified and expanded through their reporting on culture, science, national security, politics, technology, literature, and more. Across every format, their work aims to bring distinctive intelligence, moral seriousness, and wit to the exploration of the most consequential issues of the day. The Atlantic was awarded the top honor of General Excellence by the National Magazine Awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024, and earned its first three Pulitzer Prizes from 2021 to 2023.