February 2016 | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Labor Reporting, Scalia's Junkets, and Immigration Prisons

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DonkeyHote, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Why labor reporting matters more than ever.
     
  • How Donald Trump hacked American democracy. 
     
  • Atonin Scalia sure loved his junkets–the conservative justice took a free trip every 2 weeks for a decade. 
     
  • Help Hillman Prize-winner Seth Freed Wessler expose deadly immigration prisons. 
     
  • Workers at New York’s legendary B&H camera store say they face unsafe working conditions. 
     
February 19, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Occupy Juaréz, Donald vs. Francis

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Enokson, Creative Commons.

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. 
     
February 5, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Chipotle Truthers, Uber Drivers, and Zika

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Harry Pujols, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

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