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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Starbucks Fights Dirty War Against Baristas

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The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Starbucks is waging a dirty war on baristas. (NYT)
     
  • Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates travels to South Carolina to support a teacher under fire for using his book on racism. (Essence)
     
  • How Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters made Las Vegas into an international gambling Mecca. (Baffler)
     
  • Accident at Mississippi poultry plant kills 16-year-old middle school schooler. (Guardian) 
     
  • Tesla directors vastly overpaid themselves and now they have to give $735 million back to the shareholders. (Reuters)