Washington, DC is a city of symbols. Its monuments, museums, and ceremonial buildings speak of permanence and power. But for many, it’s also home.
Now, as Donald Trump reshapes the federal city from the top down, long-standing institutions are being hollowed out, and those who came to serve them are being squeezed out.
On The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist’s Ed McBride returns to the neighbourhood where he grew up, and into the heart of a capital under pressure, to ask: what happens when the seat of American power starts to lose its shape?
Note: Kilmar Garcia Abrego was returned to the US shortly after this podcast was recorded
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