The Threat to the First Amendment -- What Government Control of the Press Does to Journalism and Democracy

Podcast: Surviving Trump. Saving America · Bella Goode

Opublikowano: 2026-07-09

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Before dawn on January 14, 2026, FBI agents arrived at the Alexandria, Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson. They seized two laptops, her phone, an audio recorder, and an external hard drive containing her reporting materials. Her devices remained in government custody for weeks while courts fought over whether federal investigators could even look at them. Natanson covers the Trump administration’s transformation of the federal government — the removal of career civil servants, the politicization of agencies, the dismantling of oversight. That is the story this...