Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Doctor-Assisted Suicide, The American Health Care Act, and Jared Kushner

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Creative Commons.

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

A Canadian labor leader’s legacy: Facing death without fear
The CBO score for the American Health Care Act is so bad, Newt Gingrich wants to kill the CBO.
The feds are eyeing Jared Kushner as more of his dubious business dealings come to light
NOLA mayor Mitch Landrieu delivers a blistering speech in support of removing Confederate monuments

May 19, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Curtains for Comey, Kiddie Psychopaths, and Malta

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Marcus Hansson, Creative Commons.

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

Donald Trump made James Comey so uneasy that he pulled the ol’ curtain camouflage trick.
Florida legislators are making bank off private education
Bad seeds? The science of child psychopaths
Panama Papers muckraker locked out of Facebook for alleging corruption by the PM of Malta.

May 12, 2017

Sidney's Picks: The Drug War, Trump's "Tapes," and Chechnya

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kasiQ Jungwoo, Creative Commons.

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

Wag the dog much? Embattled AG Jeff Session escalates the drug war.
Today in our RealityTVo’cracy: Trump threatens Comey on twitter, hints he made secret tapes.
The president demands that aircraft carriers return to the age of steam.
Russian protesters arrested trying to deliver a petition protesting abuses of gay men in Chechnyna.

May 5, 2017

Sidney's Picks: School Choice, TrumpCare, and Fast Food Labels

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By Jim Sheely, Creative Commons.

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

The myth of “school choice” for New York City kids of color
Class Warfare: TrumpCare slashes health care for the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich
Did these 24 vulnerable Republicans sign their own pink slips by voting for TrumpCare?
Trump’s FDA doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating