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. 

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the call for entries for the 2019 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!

The Hillman Prizes honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good. 

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Book
• Newspaper
• Magazine 
• Broadcast 
• Web
• Opinion & Analysis 

Each prize consists of a $5000 honorarium and travel to New York City to attend the awards ceremony. 

Deadline for applications is January 30, 2019. 

Click here for full details and to enter.