The Best of the Week’s News
 

• The bathos of Trump’s fake convention. (Nation)
   

• Despite warnings, child sexual abuse images persist on Elon Musk’s X. (NYT)
   

• Deaths from ectopic pregnancies have doubled and abortion bans are largely to blame. (ProPublica) 
   

• Trump’s Venezuela deal helps his rich friends and nobody else. (MoJo)
   

• Mayor Zohran Mamdani creates an office of worker rights to build union power in New York City. (NYT)
   

• The quixotic fight to leak-proof the New York City subway system. (NYT)