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It's All About Control
Episode 2101

It's All About Control

Anne Applebaum offers her analysis of how President Trump and his administration are seeking to control elections, as well as science and culture, and why.

The Brian Lehrer Show

February 27, 202621m 3s

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Show Notes

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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