In hailing Cesar for great achievements, we overlook how power can corrupt.

Dave Faries here. Each week for the Saturday edition of this newsletter, one of us is tasked with highlighting a favorite article. Obviously our own work is off the table. And we feature the cover story on Sunday, which narrows the options a bit. Still, it can be a bit of a mental tussle to decide on one piece.

For instance, Staff Writer Agata Popęda’s story on the incarceration of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, whose personal narratives are brought forward in a program called Topaz Stories is very much worth a read. Likewise, our digital producer, Sloan Campi, filed a neat piece about craft pasta.

Yet Editor Sara Rubin’s opinion column on the recent revelations surrounding Cesar Chavez, one of the leaders of the farmworker movement in the 1960s and ’70s, is a must. Her observations on a difficult subject are a model of even-tempered judgement. Chavez battled for human rights. Now we learn that he also raped a colleague in that fight and molested other young women.

“I have become so accustomed to stories about men in power preying upon women and girls that when I read the revelations about Chavez, I was disturbed and heartbroken, but I was not surprised,” Rubin writes. We form heroic figures into figurative marble—polished and without blemish. However, we all are flawed in some way, and power—in whatever form—can easily corrupt.

I’ll leave it at that. The space allotted to her column does not allow for a full discussion, but Rubin provokes thought, which is the point.

In reading this little introduction, you may have noticed that I cheated the system. Yes, I highlight three pieces from this week’s edition of the Weekly. Take a look at them all—the others, too.