Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Sidney's Picks: The End of Federal Private Prisons and the Power of Investigative Reporting

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Katrina vanden Huevel by Clark Jones, Sidney Hillman Foundation.

The Best of the Week’s News

Hillman judge Katrina vanden Huevel on the end of federal private prisons and the importance of investigative reporting
ALEC and the Koch Brothers set their sights on the Constitution
Hillman Prize-winners take stock of extreme poverty 20 years after welfare reform
National Freight, Inc. is on the hook for a million dollars in back wages for overtime violations

August 19, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Feds to Ditch Private Prisons

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lgwigg, Creative Commons.

After reporting by Hillman Prize-winners Shane Bauer and Seth Freed Wessler, the federal government vows to ditch private prisons
A tale of Munchausen Syndrome and murder
Pro-life? Pregnancy deaths nearly doubled in Texas after health care cuts
A $600 death sentence: The race to save a patient who earned too much for Medicaid

August 12, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Michael Brown; Necessary Trouble; and Get That Baby Out of Here

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Johnny Silvercloud, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Think tank scholar, corporate consultant, or both?
“It’s very easy to become numb…” An oral history of the shooting of Michael Brown
Sarah Jaffe’s “Necessary Trouble” is a guided tour of American radicalism.
Get that baby out of here: Trump’s child care plan would moslty benefit the rich

August 5, 2016

Sidney's Picks: CT Gov Nixes Ethics $$; Trump Channels McCarthy

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Office of Governor Dan Malloy of CT, Creative Commons.

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

Connecticut governor slashes ethics funding while he’s under investigation
Trump’s Indecent Proposal
Facebook lets cops hide citizens’ videos through “law enforcement portal”
Sidney-winner Danielle Ivory talks 911 and Wall Street on DemocracyNow!