MANY HAVEtried to stifle the Voice of America (VOA) in the eight decades since its hurried birth as a wartime broadcaster in 1942. These days China blocks its website and jams its signals. In 2017 Russia declaredVOAto be a “foreign agent”. Yet it isPresident Donald Trumpwho may silence it for good.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Voicelessness of America”
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