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Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post.

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Anne Applebaum on the political response to swine flu

How did we get to this point? That is, how did we get to a point where outbreaks treated with the utmost seriousness by the World Health Organization -- swine flu has been officially declared a "pandemic" -- receive vastly different levels of respect ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Anne Applebaum (Washington Post),  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anne Applebaum,  World Health Organization,  Goldman Sachs,  Citigroup

Why has the global response to swine flu been so politicized?

I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat and mentioned this fact to a friend. "Swine flu?" he asked, oinking a few times for emphasis. No, as far as I can tell, I do not have swine flu, the virus more formally known as H1N1. But even if I did, ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Slate,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: World Health Organization,  Goldman Sachs,  Citigroup

Portents

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West As its subtitle makes clear, this is a book about immigration, Islam, and the West. But at the same time this is also a book about a particular moral culture, a set of attitudes, ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, The New Republic,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union

After the Fall of the Wall, Central Europe's fate was supposed to be uncertain and bleak. Today the region prospers more than ever.

BERLIN—For some time now, I've been trying to put my finger on what has been bothering me about the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There is nothing wrong with holding dozens of ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Slate,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  U.S. Congress,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  NATO

Anne Applebaum on after the Berlin Wall fell

Here in Berlin, there are conferences, books and dignitaries in abundance: Everyone who is anyone is in town, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Hillary Clinton, and plenty of kitsch is in evidence as well. A Berlin culture committee has set up a "long line of ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Anne Applebaum (Washington Post),  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anne Applebaum,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Angela Merkel,  NATO

Two books about the revolutions of 1989.

Everything comes around again, in the end; every debate needs to be held twice. For the past few years, the Russians have been conducting an extraordinary national argument about whether Stalin was bad, a question one would have thought was settled ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Slate,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev

Merkel's quiet ascension in Germany could envelope Europe

Even if you knew all of that, you might as well cheer anyway, because Merkel's achievement is far greater than it seems. She is a soft-spoken, even-tempered and, frankly, dull pragmatist who has compared her economic program to that of a "Swabian ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Anne Applebaum (Washington Post),  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  Labor Party,  Nicolas Sarkozy

Angela Merkel's quiet revolution.

Did you know that there were German elections in late September? Were you aware that the German socialists were soundly defeated? Had you realized that there was now a new government in Germany? No? Then give the credit—for both the victory and the ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Slate,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Angela Merkel,  Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  Labor Party

There is little sense of Afghanistan as being an international operation.

The fact is that the idea of "the West" has been fading for a long time on both sides of the Atlantic, as countless "whither the alliance" seminars have been ritually observing for the last decade. But the consequences are now with us: NATO, though ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Slate,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Barack Obama

Where's the alliance in Afghanistan?

Just a week before, a parallel scene had unfolded across the Channel: In Paris, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan this summer died at a hospital. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon paid homage to the sergeant, speaking of "the courage of our soldiers, ...

From ANNE APPLEBAUM, Anne Applebaum (Washington Post),  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Barack Obama

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