Garry Kasparov

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

No other president? I can think of a few! And they stood up for America against enemies, not allies. Little Marco, let's see Trump stand up to Putin if you want to impress anyone.

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

While Ambassador Bolton's episode will be popular today for some reason, the new Autocracy in America is an important one. My chess Grandmaster and grandmaster-politician guest, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, speaks from the frontline of Russia's next war, Lithuania. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Ukraine is a secondary topic for both Trump and Putin in Alaska. This is a mafia meeting arranged by war criminal Putin to restore Russia internationally & economically. Trump wants his "peace" glory and Putin used that to get this summit. But it's mainly about money for both of them, as always.

Europe is a sleeping beauty, with Putin and Trump handing out poisoned apples (and tea). Can it awaken to become the defender of democracy we need today? Listen or read my latest Autocracy in America podcast with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Making Putin feel quite at home with the Trump White House, in more ways than one.

I grew up admiring the moral stands of Soviet dissidents like Sakharov, and what I saw as the beacon of individual freedom, America. My guest this week, foreign policy expert George Friedman, instead talks concrete interests and analysis in our conversation: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Simply using the absurd phrase “the Ukraine conflict” says a lot. Calling out the opportunism and hypocrisy of other nations doing business with Russia is fine (China, ahem), but admit you are funding a dictator‘s unprovoked war by choice.

Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.

US power, including hard power, has been a force for good in the world. Yes, I said it. My latest Autocracy In America guest Amb John Bolton also says it, with plenty to back it up. From Iran to Russia to Hamas, what Trump's isolationism gets wrong. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...