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Cover Story:The Bad Guys Are WinningIf the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.by Anne Applebaum