The Best of the Week’s News

• Bruce Raynor and Andy Stern present a five-point plan to envigorate the labor movement. 
• “Rational as crackhead” is not a phrase you hear very often, but new research suggests that crack addicts can make rational choices about their next fix.
• Sidney Award-winner Jina Moore on the revolution in maternal health in the Republic of Congo, where deaths in childbirth have fallen by half.
• The earwax of a blue whale is like a time capsule, scientists report.  

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]