Anne Applebaum's new book, "Autocracy, Inc.," examines how autocracies are gaining power, and what they’re doing with that power. William Brangham sat down with Applebaum to discuss more.

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Two studies offer fascinating portraits of the increasingly sophisticated and networked world of autocracy, dictatorship, and tyranny. Applebaum focuses on the growing connections among hard-core ...

It’s against the backdrop of democratic decline that Anne Applebaum has written Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World – a book she dedicates to “the optimists.” ...

In her previous book, "Twilight of Democracy", the historian and journalist took aim at liberalism's challengers in the West, particularly populist "demagogues" on the Right. In her new one ...

“Autocracy, Inc.” is a valuable book for many reasons, but the focus on illicit wealth creation and on those in democracies who enable it is especially timely. So is Applebaum’s ...

In her new book, "Autocracy Inc.," journalist Anne Applebaum argues that many of today's dictators collaborate to help keep one another in power. She joins the show to discuss this phenomenon.

New York Times Opinion writer M. Gessen lived through much of Russia's slide into autocracy, and wrote a book about it. They argue that one of the ways Vladimir Putin consolidated power ...

In her previous book, "Twilight of Democracy", the historian ... and are thus united not by ideals but by "deals" – hence Autocracy Inc., her "catchy coinage". She provides a strong account ...