The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis ’82 brings his journalistic skill to bear in unveiling the disappearance of data across several governmental departments in the wake of the Trump Administration’s transition. The EPA and the Department of Interior websites both took down links affirming climate change. Similarly, data from USDA and FEMA sites went missing. This trend, according to Lewis, is due to unqualified, undereducated, and disinterested Trump appointees, and reveals a government under siege.