The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Mueller, seeking to leave no Stone unturned, arrests notorious GOP operative.
   
• Jared Kushner’s security clearance was granted over the objections of senior officials who saw huge red flags
   
• “The Pit” and “Cuddle Puddles”: Inside the horrifying world of Montana’s residential schools 
   
• The women who make Zara jeans take to the streets in Bangladesh to demand fair wages. 
• Over 1000 media jobs axed in an a single week. 
   
• LA’s striking teachers won gains for students, but threats from charter schools remain. 

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?

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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes lung surgery to remove cancerous nodules.
   
• The fight to save local news and the war on reporter Mackenzie Mays. 
   
• Planned Parenthood accused of mistreating pregnant employees. 
   
• Michelle Alexander: “None of us deserve citizenship…”

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• 60 Minutes was its own fiefdom complete with Droit de Seigneur. 
   
• Documents point to illegal campaign coordination between Trump and the NRA.
   
• Infamous Pegasus software helped the Saudis spy on Khashoggi.
   
• Trump’s incoming UN ambassador thinks the height of US/German relations was…D-Day.