Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, looks over towards U.S. President Donald Trump, left, as Trump speaks during their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki

The Decade in Democracy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 17, 2019

Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic covering national politics and foreign policy with a particular focus on Europe and the author of the forthcoming Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of the Authoritarian State (Doubleday July, 2020), looks at the changes in U.S. and European democracies in the 2010s.

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