Trump’s D.C. Crime Crackdown Shows Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns NYT | Top Stories By: Glenn Thrush 1 September 2025 at 21:36 If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition. © Haiyun Jiang/The New York TimesNational Guard troops around the National Mall in Washington. President Trump declared a crime emergency in the capital in August.
The Deadly Pleasure of Smoking Cigarettes NYT | Opinion 16 August 2025 at 01:03 Readers criticize a guest essay about the pleasures of smoking. Also: The trauma of jury duty; the federalized police in Washington, D.C.