The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Union approval nears 50-year high.
   
• When solitary is a death sentence.
   
• You’re reading that hurricane map wrong. 
   
• “The Reasonable Rebels”

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The New York Times’ groundbreaking 1619 Project marks the 400th anniversary of slavery in America and traces its legacy to the present day 
   
• An ICE officer steered his truck into a crowd of protesters that included children and a wheelchair user–then calmly parked and went to work
   
• The worker safety crisis at Koch-owned Georgia Pacific 
   
• How Gamergate touched off a new culture war 

The Best of the Week’s News 

• Kentucky coal miners say they will keep blocking coal trains until they get paid by the Blackjewel mine. The mine sent out paychecks knowing they would bounce and failed to post a legally-required bond.
   
• “Military romance scams” ensnare lonely Americans on facebook. 
   
• California bill could reform the gig economy to benefit workers.
   
• How one “outdoor cat” destroyed an entire bird sanctuary. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The new acting secretary of labor, a former crony of Jack Abramoff, is expected to pursue an even more brutally anti-worker agenda. 
   
• Trump plans to appoint Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice, as permanent Secretary of Labor. 
   
• How the Fight for Fifteen went from a far-left project to mainstream Democratic policy. 
   
• Appleby leak shows Epstein’s cash is stashed offshore. 
   
• US is quietly opening detention “shelters” for infants and children without parents.