Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist, historian and foreign-policy commentator. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013, and is married to Radosław Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister. Applebaum has worked for The Economist and The Spectator and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post from 2002 to 2006.