June 2016 | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

June 2016

Sidney's Picks: Private Prison Confidential & The Other Smoke Inhalation Lobby

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UMWomen, Creative Commons. A giant puppet flaps in the breeze at a protest outside a Corrections Corporation of America facility in Texas. Shane Bauer went undercover as a CCA guard in Louisiana. 

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

Sidney's Picks: Bloodlust, Zika, and Paranoia

The Best of the Week’s News

  • I will satisfy my bloodlust: The Orlando shooter’s private security firm ignored warnings about two other killers
     
  • In the shadow of Zika
     
  • Trump peddles another conspiracy theory, protester paranoia grips his followers
     
  • Clinton garners the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor union

Sidney's Picks: Scientology, Deadbeat Donald, and the Stanford Rapist

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

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

  • Scientology and Goldman Sachs team up to teach morality. What could go wrong?
     
  • Donald Trump is the anti-Lannister. He never pays his debts.
     
  • CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield explains why she read the Stanford rape victim’s impact statement on the air
     
  • A defense attorney explains how defendants like the Stanford Rapist work the system for lighter sentences
     
  • How Margaret Sanger myths are used to shame black women

Sidney's Picks: Uber's Sup-Prime Caper, "Both Sides-ism," and Walmart

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Gust, Creative Commons.

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