Gavin Newsom on the L.A. Protests, Trump’s Response and Why It’s a Defining Moment for Democracy

Tomorrow night, for the first time in decades, the United States military will put its unrivaled might on display in a parade through downtown Washington D.C. Helene Cooper, who covers national security for The Times, explains how President Trump overcame years of opposition from inside the military to get the parade and why its timing has become so fraught. David E. Sanger, who covers the White House and national security, gives an update on Israel’s attack on Iran and what it is likely to mean for the region.

This week’s protests and clashes in California are the biggest flare-up yet over President Trump’s immigration enforcement. They follow months of escalating raids and rhetoric as the administration struggles to fulfill the president’s big promises for mass deportations. Hamed Aleaziz, who covers immigration policy for The Times, goes inside one ICE operation and explains why the tensions over Mr. Trump’s aggressive approach may only get worse.

In the trade war between the United States and China, the biggest sticking point is a handful of metals that are essential to the U.S. and almost entirely under the control of China. The problem is, China has now cut off America’s access to those metals, threatening American industry and the U.S. military. Keith Bradsher explains how the United States became so dependent on China for these metals in the first place, and just how hard it will be to live without them. Guest: Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times.

During an extraordinary weekend, President Trump deployed 2,000 troops from the National Guard to suppress protests in Los Angeles against his own immigration policies, and his bitter breakup with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, entered a new stage of acrimony. Shawn Hubler, The New York Times’s Los Angeles bureau chief, and Jonathan Swan, a White House correspondent, join Michael Barbaro to walk listeners through an eventful 48 hours. Guests: Shawn Hubler, the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times. Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times.

At 46, Mireille Silcoff divorced her partner of 21 years, and went on to have more sex and better sex than she’d ever had before. She soon realized she wasn’t the only woman her age in the midst of a sexual renaissance.