The Best of the Week’s News

• Inside the “fashion prison” of Montreal. (Lux)
   

• Death squads: The CIA is assassinating suspected drug traffickers in Mexico. (CNN)
   

• Soaring temperatures endanger New York City construction workers. (Documented)
   

• Nick Kristof calls out sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners by their Israeli captors, Israel threatens to sue for defamation. (NYT, Poynter, Post)
   

• Hillman prize-winner Adam Serwer on why all political violence fuels authoritarianism. (Atlantic)
   

• Check out the photos of the 2026 Hillman awards ceremony in New York.