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The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns over lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, which was exposed by Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown. 
   
• A former federal prosecutor explains how Jeffrey Epstein’s luck finally ran out. 
   
• “I feel like a Ground Zero patient”: People who have lost loved ones to the cult of Qanon speak out 
   
• How Trump’s sheer incompetence doomed his bid to rig the Census. 
   
• The National Education Association, the country’s largest union, affirms the right to abortion at its annual convention. 
   
• It was never about bussing, it was about desegregation. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Meet the women who corroborate E. Jean Carroll’s allegations of rape against the president.
   
• The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering verdict is a disaster for democracy.
   
• The end of the Lordstown GM plant means the end of a struggle for workplace democracy. 
   
• Oregon Republican senators remain in hiding after walking out to thwart a cap-and-trade bill.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders: The press secretary who demonized the press
   
• How right-wing mag Quillette reported propaganda as fact, putting reportersat risk.
   
• Big labor news: UAW gets another crack at unionizing a VW plantin Tennessee 
   
• Celebrating black fatherhood
   
• Hillman Judge Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hillman board member Danny Glover to testify before Congressabout reparations on Juneteenth.  

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• “Smoking gun” memo proves the citizenship census question is designed to empower whites and Republicans.
   
• The incel plastic surgery craze.
   
• American suicide: Guns, booze, and toxic masculinity 
   
• California poised to crack down on the gig economy.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The president wants his border fence painted black to scald people, with spikes to rip human flesh–and he wants it to be pretty. 
   
• Time to play everyone’s favorite game: Which Florida elections offices were hacked by the Russians? 
   
• In this tiny Alaskan village, sex offenders outnumber the police 7 to 1. 
   
• Did the Tennessee House Speaker’s Office try to frame an activist?
   
• Ben Carson poised to evict 55,000 children from public housing.