One Story to Read Today highlights a single newly published—or newly relevant—Atlantic story that’s worth your time. Gavin Newsom resists discussing his showdown with Donald Trump over L.A. in political terms, but “he did describe the episode to me as perhaps the most consequential of his career,” Mark Leibovich writes. |
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| This is the week that Gavin Newsom stopped thinking so much. The governor of California has found himself in a hot swirl of events: Federal authorities are patrolling streets, ICE agents are raiding Home Depots, and protests (mostly though not entirely peaceful) are spreading across the state. President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, very much against Newsom’s wishes. He also endorsed the idea of Newsom being arrested. House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested as an alternative that Newsom be “tarred and feathered.” And Senator Alex Padilla of California, whom Newsom appointed to his job in 2021, was forced to the floor and handcuffed by federal agents while trying to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question at a press conference. “We are not going away,” Noem vowed in Los Angeles, referring to the federal officials she said had come to “liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.” As of this writing, Newsom had not gone away either—in handcuffs, feathers, or otherwise. | |
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