The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

Are we in Cold War 2.0?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum doesn’t think so. Now autocracies are less ideological. What they do share, she writes in a new book, is a way of stealing - like corrupt corporations.

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Jul 23, 2024
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Editor’s Note: We’re trying something a little different: Anne joins us to talk about her book, out today, titled 'Autocracy Inc.' It’s about how the world’s dictatorships now cooperate more like a series of companies that work together to steal, launder and oppress. 

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