May 2026

May 15, 2026

Sidney's Picks: Check out the 2026 Hillman Prize Event Photos!

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Sidney Hillman Foundation.

The Best of the Week’s News

Inside the “fashion prison” of Montreal. (Lux)
Death squads: The CIA is assassinating suspected drug traffickers in Mexico. (CNN)
Soaring temperatures endanger New York City construction workers. (Documented)
Nick Kristof calls out sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners by their Israeli captors, Israel threatens to sue for defamation. (NYT, Poynter, Post)
Hillman prize-winner Adam Serwer on why all political violence fuels authoritarianism. (Atlantic)
Check out the photos of the 2026 Hillman awards ceremony in New York.

May 8, 2026

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Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the 2026 Hillman Prizes with us in New York on Tuesday. Stay tuned for event photos!

The Best of the Week’s News

Why do major newspapers have business sections but not labor sections? (DC Report)
Jeff Bezos wants to halve the budget of the Washington Post’s newsroom and double its productivity. (NYT)
More babies are bleeding to death because parents are refusing lifesaving Vitamin K shots. (ProPublica)
Hacker uses Morse code to scam $200,000 from Elon Musk’s Grok AI. (Dexterto)
Trump tries to dodge his $83 million defamation judgment from E. Jean Carroll. (AP)

May 1, 2026

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SEIU, May Day March (2010), Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Workers mark May Day in the U.S. and around the world. (NPR, AP, NYPix, WaPo)
The U.S. and Canadian mints say their gold coins represent the highest patriotic values, but the metal comes a mine owned by a Colombian drug cartel. (NYT)
2026 Hillman Prize-winner Lydia Polgreen talks migration with Hot 97 host Nessa.
The Supreme Court effectively killed the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to mass disenfranchisement of Black voters. (Atlantic)
ICE deports a Colombian survivor of torture and domestic violence to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a place she has never been. (Bulwark)
McClatchy reporters refuse to lend their bylines to AI-generated summaries. (NYT)
New York City nixes plan for AI-themed high school. (Chalkbeat)