The Best of the Week’s News

• The eviction cycle: A conversation with Matthew Desmond, author of “Evicted.” 
   
• Rebecca Traister on the evolution of marriage and the political power of single women.
   
• PEN America honors a mother and a local doctor for sounding the alarm about the Flint water crisis.
   
• The lonely death of a flamboyant fracking baron. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• Workers in Ciudad Juárez are holding an historic sit-in strike for a 50 cent raise from the Lexmark maquiladora. 
   
• Captured: People in Prison Drawing People Who Should Be
   
• First El Chapo, now El Papa: Donald Trump is beefing with the pope. 
   
• What Antonin Scalia’s death means for Friedrichs, a critical case for organized labor. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• “God is a Parrot”: How psittacines help veterans conquer PTSD.
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Seth Freed-Wessler shines a light on deaths in immigration detention. Support his ongoing investigation.
   
•  Drug shortages lead to hidden health care rationing.
   
• A hacker has exposed the private data of the nation’s biggest police union. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• How Flint, Michigan sacrificed its children’s brains on the altar of austerity. 
   
• How absurd lenience for Cliven Bundy set the stage for the Vanilla ISIS bird sanctuary siege in Oregon. 
   
• A brief history of “immigrant horde“ campaign ads, a time-honored motif for demagogues. 
   
• An elite test tutor explains how myths about the SAT separate the 1% from their money.