The Best of the Week’s News

• In honor of Valentine’s Day, we bring you a story on the intricate science of sex toys.

• Will Volkswagen workers in Tennessee say “yes” to the United Auto Workers?

• It wasn’t just the bridge: Chris Christie’s political career is a study in slime.

• So, now we know who to blame: Al From claims he personally stopped the Democratic Party’s “headlong dash into social democracy.”

• A famous anti-choice doctor in West Virginia appears to have fabricated lurid tales of women with “botched abortions” flocking to his emergency room.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]