A Reader Asked How the Country Is Weaker. Here Is the Answer, Agency by Agency.

Brian wanted specifics. This is the inventory: who was fired, what was dismantled, which allies stopped calling, and what it adds up to twenty months in.

A reader named Brian asked me a fair question under last week's piece. The administration says America is stronger than it has been in decades. I keep writing that it is weaker. How, exactly? Name the thing. Brian, this is the answer, and it is long, because the answer is long. I have organized it the way the government is organized, by what each part i…