March 17, 2025 In "Youngstown," Bruce Springsteen's searing elegy for America's industrial heartland, an ex-steelworker laments that by shutting the mills, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do." Trump and Musk have now accomplished what Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and several previous generations of dictators never could: silencing the Voice of America. The shutdown… Continue reading Lost voices of democracy
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