Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Parrots, PTSD, and the Fraternal Order of Police

Photo credit:

digitalART2, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

“God is a Parrot”: How psittacines help veterans conquer PTSD.
Hillman Prize-winner Seth Freed-Wessler shines a light on deaths in immigration detention. Support his ongoing investigation.
Drug shortages lead to hidden health care rationing.
A hacker has exposed the private data of the nation’s biggest police union.

January 15, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Dark Money, Canuckophobia, and Free Harvard

Photo credit:

Free Pictures of Money, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Some groups fighting “dark money” in politics are less than forthcoming about their own finances.
Ted Cruz and the Fear of a Canadian Planet
The Supreme Court decision that could spell the end of organized labor.
The complex racial politics behind the drive to make Harvard tuition-free.

January 8, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Lead Poisoning, SAT Angst, Vanilla ISIS, and other Perils of Modern Life

Photo credit:

Brother O’Mara, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

How Flint, Michigan sacrificed its children’s brains on the altar of austerity.
How absurd lenience for Cliven Bundy set the stage for the Vanilla ISIS bird sanctuary siege in Oregon.
A brief history of “immigrant horde“ campaign ads, a time-honored motif for demagogues.
An elite test tutor explains how myths about the SAT separate the 1% from their money.