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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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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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

Meet the Chipotle Truthers.
A new drive to unionize Uber drivers in New York City.
Notes from the Zika beat.
Ted Cruz’s college roommate gets his revenge.