A former U.S.A.I.D. worker talks with the columnist Lydia Polgreen about enduring the second Trump administration.

Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

As a young child, I was terrified by the Wicked Witch of the West in the Hollywood adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. The witch’s long pointed chin, green face, sinister cackle, and the w...