"I was actually at a breast-cancer retreat. And during the coffee break, I looked at my emails to see, you know, if there's anything that I had to deal with. And I got this email from the university, and it was a real gut punch. My knees basically buckled, and I had to sit down. I never imagined that it would be possible that funding for lifesaving research would be"
"In this new season, I am asking how the Trump White House is rewriting the rules of U.S. politics, and talking to Americans whose lives have been changed as a result. Today's episode examines the administration's attacks on science, medicine, culture, and education-a combination of verbal threats and funding cuts that look very much like an attempt to control knowledge."
Joan Brugge, a cancer scientist of nearly fifty years, lost lab funding after the Trump administration cut grants unrelated to research quality. She describes the shock and emotional impact of receiving the termination notice during a conference. The administration employs verbal threats and funding cuts targeting science, medicine, culture, and education. Ruth Ben-Ghiat frames these actions as part of an autocratic project aimed at maintaining power by undermining institutions, controlling knowledge, and fostering public distrust to reshape Americans' perceptions of reality.
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