Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. One of her acclaimed books published in 2024, Autocracy, Inc.: Dictators Who Want to Run the World, investigates where autocracy came from, why it persists, how the democratic world originally helped consolidate autocratic countries, and how we can defeat autocracy.