Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and a Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Her condemnation of Russian aggression has seen her personally sanctioned by Putin's government. Her most recent book is Autocracy Inc.

Prior to The Atlantic she was a Washington Post columnist for more than fifteen years and a member of the editorial board. She has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of The Spectator magazine in London, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.