Hannah Rosen

To hear from more federal workers, check out Frank's article online.

It's called The Purged.

He talks to civil servants who worked on disaster relief, humanitarian aid at the IRS, the Centers for Disease Control.

So much knowledge and so much experience lost.

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I'm Hannah Rosen.

Thank you for listening.

I'm Anne Applebaum.

Over the past year, as I watched Donald Trump demand unprecedented new powers, I wondered, don't he and his team fear that these same powers could one day be used by a different administration and a different president to achieve very different goals?

Well, maybe they are afraid.

And maybe that's why they're using their new tools to change our institutions, even to alter the playing field in advance of midterm elections later this year, to make sure their opponents can't win.

We could win, but we are very, very, very likely to lose if we keep treating this as business as usual.

reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in our country and preparing you to think about what might happen next.

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Minneapolis remains tense this week.

People are out on the streets clashing with ICE agents.