The Best of the Week’s News

• Linda Tirado became an internet sensation with her essay, “Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or Poverty Thoughts.” Read a review of her new book, Hand to Mouth.

• John Carlos Frey and the PBS Need to Know team win an Emmy for their Sidney Award-winning story, Dying To Get Back. Congratulations to them and their collaborators at the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute! 

• The fall of the Oral Roberts televangelism dynasty.

• Jessica Valenti on rape, bullying, and suicide in an age of online harassment.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]