Will Anyone Check the President?
Apr 23, 2025•43 min•Ep. 1239
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Episode description
Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, historian and author of Autocracy Inc. (Penguin, 2024), argues the checks on presidential power, put in place by the founders, have so far failed in the second Trump administration, and talks about what causes authoritarian governments to fail.
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