The Best of the Week’s News: 

• U.S. citizen freed after 23 horrific days in ICE detention. 
   
• The McMindfulness scam
   
• The Road to “No”: Asylum-seekers risk everything to make their case, but the courts are rarely swayed.
   
• Contempt for Consent: A Toronto doctor’s downfall 
   
• Prospective Secretary of Labor’s writings raise eyebrows in the #MeToo era. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns over lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, which was exposed by Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown. 
   
• A former federal prosecutor explains how Jeffrey Epstein’s luck finally ran out. 
   
• “I feel like a Ground Zero patient”: People who have lost loved ones to the cult of Qanon speak out 
   
• How Trump’s sheer incompetence doomed his bid to rig the Census. 
   
• The National Education Association, the country’s largest union, affirms the right to abortion at its annual convention. 
   
• It was never about bussing, it was about desegregation. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Meet the women who corroborate E. Jean Carroll’s allegations of rape against the president.
   
• The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering verdict is a disaster for democracy.
   
• The end of the Lordstown GM plant means the end of a struggle for workplace democracy. 
   
• Oregon Republican senators remain in hiding after walking out to thwart a cap-and-trade bill.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders: The press secretary who demonized the press
   
• How right-wing mag Quillette reported propaganda as fact, putting reportersat risk.
   
• Big labor news: UAW gets another crack at unionizing a VW plantin Tennessee 
   
• Celebrating black fatherhood
   
• Hillman Judge Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hillman board member Danny Glover to testify before Congressabout reparations on Juneteenth.