The Best of the Week’s News

• A moving tribute to Heather “Digby” Parton on the occasion of her Hillman Prize win by Kathleen Geier of the Washington Monthly. Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel thought the post was so apt she quoted it when she presented Digby’s award at Tuesday’s Hillman Prize ceremony. 

• Fast food organizers are planning an international wave of protests next week to push for a living wage in the industry.

• The Next Christian Sex Abuse Scandal.

• Kidnapped Nigerian school girls are more than just a hashtag.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]