It's All About Control
Feb 27, 2026•21 min•Ep. 2101
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Episode description
Historian Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, host of their podcast "Autocracy in America" and author of Autocracy Inc. (Penguin, 2024) and offers her analysis of how President Trump and his administration are seeking to control elections, as well as science and culture, and why.
photo: "I Voted" sticker worn on lapel of fuzzy winter coat, shot during the November 2025 election in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Funknendai, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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