Introducing Autocracy in America

A new podcast with Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look. Anne Applebaum: There’s a common perception that democracy ends with a battle—soldiers in the streets, a coup d’état, the fall of a government. Peter Pomerantsev: No, democracy’s lost one little step at a time. Pomerantsev: We know this because we have studied how autocracies take hold. Applebaum: We have reported from places where freedoms are curtailed and corruption flourishes....