We're living in interesting times, a turning point in history.
Are we entering a dark authoritarian era or are we on the brink of a technological golden age or the apocalypse?
No one really knows, but I'm trying to find out.
From New York Times opinion, I'm Ross Douthat and on my show, Interesting Times,
I'm exploring this strange new world order with the thinkers and leaders giving it shape.
Follow it wherever you get your podcasts.
From The New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
This is The Daily.
One month after sending the National Guard into Washington to fight crime there,
President Trump is so pleased with the results that he's now discussing how to put federal troops under the streets of cities across the country.
From Chicago, to New Orleans.
It's a potentially dramatic expansion of what has already become an unprecedented military deployment on domestic soil.
Today,
my colleague Jessica Chung speaks with residents of Washington about what it's really like when the National Guard comes to town.
It's Monday, September 8th.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime,
bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals roving mobs of wild youth,
drugged out maniacs and homeless people.
And we're not going to let it happen anymore.