Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Sidney's Picks: McDonald's, Yelp, and Salon

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

Who’s afraid of the Fight for 15? McDonald’s closes headquarters amid protests
Yelp meltdown: Chiropractors flip out over 1-star reviews
What happened to Salon?
Inside the FBI’s elite art crime squad

May 20, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Verizon Strike, Mass Graves, and Skid Row

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The Best of the Week’s News

An inside look at the Verizon strike
Hillman Prize-winner Nina Bernstein sent a drone to reveal the mass graves of New York City
Abscesses and twisties: A day in the life of a Skid Row doctor
Trump delegate indicted on weapons and child porn charges

May 13, 2016

Sidney's Picks: The Olive Garden, H2 Visas, and the Workers Unite! Film Festival

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The Best of the Week’s News

How the Olive Garden and the banks replaced paychecks with fee-laden debit cards
Americans don’t miss manufacturing, we miss unions
More coverage of the sometimes deadly H2 visa program from our Sidney Award-winners at Buzzfeed
Check out the Workers Unite! Film Festival in New York City, on now through May 26

May 6, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Sex Work, Surveillance, and a Socialist Mayor for London

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Günter Hentschel, Creative Commons.

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

Should sex work be legal?
London elects Sadiq Khan, the city’s first socialist Muslim mayor
A political scientist explains why Donald Trump is a weak general election candidate
The FBI orders cops to manufacture fictitious chain of evidence to hide surveillance