The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Historian Rick Perlstein talks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic trauma, and party renewal.  
   
• The forgotten wave of wildcat strikes that swept America. 
   
• Middle-class shame will determine the course of the nation. 
• Waiting for the glass slipper to drop: Prosecutors eye foreign cash and shady guests at Trump’s inaugural festivities.
   
• When old men kill their wives, is it mercy or domestic violence?