The Best of the Week’s News

• A Colorado prison official voluntarily spends the night in solitary confinement, feels like he’s losing his mind.

• Inside the Scott Walker email scandal.

• Man framed for murder gets $6.4 million settlement from NYC after 23 years behind bars.

• How the U.S. evangelical movement stoked Russia’s anti-gay policies.

• Rich Yeselson on Michael Dunn, the end of American consensus, and the hollowness of identity politics. 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]