The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Organizing the digital newsroom, by Hillman Prize-winner Steven Greenhouse 
   
• Austerity in the UK
   
• The hidden horrors of “zero tolerance” in Texas immigration court 
   
• What happened to Jill Stein’s recount millions?
   
• The unintended victims of the opioid crackdown 

The Best of the Week’s News

• How the Trump team worked the Trump Moscow deal during the 2016 campaign
   
• Ronan Farrow and the case of the missing Suspicious Activity Reports 
   
• Jordan Peterson, guardian of the patriarchy 
   
• Cornell broke the law ahead of grad student union vote

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Sex work is work, and criminalization is deadly. 
   
• Philosopher Kate Manne on Schneiderman and strangulation 
   
• The VA is abusing a “whistleblower law” to purge union workers. 
   
• White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly. 
   
• Firm that paid Michael Cohen is deeply tied to Russian oligarchs.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Chuck Schumer will introduce a bill to decriminalize cannabis.
• What’s at stake in the teachers’ strikes?
• Wells Fargo will pay a billion dollars to federal regulators as punishment for phony account scam.
• Republican state legislators continue their assault on abortion rights.

The Best of the Week’s News 

• Trump killed protections for female contractors on Equal Pay Day.  (Correction: This is from a year ago this week.) 
   
• Scott Pruitt demanded a bulletproof desk, and lights and sirens to dodge traffic.  
   
• The man sent to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave lavish salariesto his accomplices. 
   
• New California law automatically registers eligible voters when they get their drivers’ licenses.