The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Trump watched the Super Bowl with the founder of the salon where the Pats’ owner was busted for buying sex. 
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Jane Mayer on the unholy alliance between Fox News and the Trump White House.
   
• Will labor issues (finally) come to the fore in 2020?
   
• Surviving Civilization: The traumatic legacy of “boarding schools” for indigenous children
   
• The 108th Commemoration of the Triangle Fire will be held at noon on March 25th at the corner of Washington Place and Greene St in NYC. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Trump Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta broke the law when he hid Jeffrey Epstein’s sweet, sweet 2007 plea deal from the financier’s young victims. 
   
• The teachers’ strike movement arrives in Oakland as educators demand fundamental fixes for a struggling system 
   
• Deep freeze at the Metropolitan Detention Center-Brooklyn shows that the federal jail isn’t prepared for emergencies. 
   
• The North Carolina elections board will call a new election in NC-9 after evidence of blatant Republican voter fraud comes to light. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Trump has been hiring undocumented workers from this tiny Costa Rican village for years.
   
• Blackface scandals and a sexual assault allegation could doom Democrats in Virginia. 
   
• The lies that will kill Roe 
• The Most Important Idea in the World: What’s inside the Green New Deal?

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.