The Best of the Week’s News
 

• The oral history of DOGE from 200 federal workers who lived through it. (Wired)
   

• Mid-decade redistricting might be illegal. (WaMo)
   

• The Face and the Fist: How Noem and Lewandowski run DHS (NYMag)
   

• From crashing cocaine prices to legalized bribery, Donald Trump is the crown prince of crime. (Prospect)
   

• AI-generated “workslop” is killing productivity and costing money. (CNBC)
   

• How the city’s $30 billion social safety net still fails homeless New Yorkers on the subway. (Streetsblog)