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. 

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?