The Best of the Week’s News

• Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform. (Vanity Fair)
   

• Wisconsin judge strikes down parts of the state’s notorious anti-public sector union law. (MJS)
   

• Biden administration offers $1.7 billion to boost to electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. (NYT)
   

• Is noise pollution from a huge bitcoin mine sickening Texans? (Time)
   

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sent a text apologizing to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. (WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Audio storytellers at the iHeartMedia network vote 99% to ratify their first union contract. (Hollywood Reporter)
   
• Why Starbucks and Workers United are on track to reach a contract. (NYT)
   
• House “Slow Fashion Caucus” hopes to break our national addiction to disposable clothing. (WaPo)
   
• California senate advances major tax on data mining to fund journalism jobs. (Matt Pearce)
   
• New York City is bleeding information industry jobs. (The City)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Supreme Court makes it harder for NLRB to reinstate workers fired for organizing. (NYT)
   

• Dollar Trees are as common as Starbucks, and the retailer is under pressureto improve its terrible safety record. (VA Center for Investigative Journalism)

• CVS is making generic drugs for children with contaminated water, incorrect doses of medication, and other serious defects. (Bloomberg)

   

• Dark money news sites are outpacing local newspapers in swing states. (Axios)
   

• Hundreds of police officers sexually abused kids and many dodged prison time. (WaPo)
   

• A co-owner of the Calgary Flames paid to subject indigenous children to pseudoscientific brain wave experiments that were supposed to help them see angels. (CBC)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Labor department sues Hyundai to stop child labor in Alabama after 13-year-old allegedly worked a 60-hour week. (WaPo)

   

• Biden’s nominations could preserve the Democratic majority on the NLRB whether or not he wins reelection. (Bloomberg)

   

• Catholic clergy sexually abused Native American children for decades in U.S. government-run boarding schools, and a national reckoning is at hand. (WaPo)
   

• After a lifetime of law-breaking, Donald Trump is finally facing accountability. (MoJo)
   

• Public sector workers in Wisconsin challenge 2011 law that ended most collective bargaining in their state. (AP)
   

• Trump’s a convicted felon and his billionaire donors don’t care. (NYT)