Since The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall, Donald Trump was elected president again. Staff writer Anne Applebaum describes how Trump's return to the White House fits into the changing geopolitical landscape as she hands the show over to its new host: Garry Kasparov. The former world chess champion and lifelong democracy activist will guide a series of conversations about society's complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat'and a new belligerence among dictators. Anne Applebaum: From The Atlantic, this is Autocracy in America. I'm Anne Applebaum. Last summer, I made the first series of this podcast together with my friend and colleague Peter Pomerantsev. We were not trying to predict the future. Instead, we looked at some of the ways in which the United States had already adopted practices common in the autocratic world. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions. He packed the...
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