The Best of the Week’s News

• Defense contractors are cashing in on immigrant kids.
   
• Washington Post union asks #DearJeffBezos for a fair contract as Amazon kills Seattle tax to help the homeless. 
   
• New York City must pay $1 billion to fix lead paint and other dangers in public housing.
   
• How the norms of political journalism help spread Trump’s lies. 
   
• How Janus v. AFSCME could kneecap public sector unions. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Organizing the digital newsroom, by Hillman Prize-winner Steven Greenhouse 
   
• Austerity in the UK
   
• The hidden horrors of “zero tolerance” in Texas immigration court 
   
• What happened to Jill Stein’s recount millions?
   
• The unintended victims of the opioid crackdown 

The Best of the Week’s News

• How the Trump team worked the Trump Moscow deal during the 2016 campaign
   
• Ronan Farrow and the case of the missing Suspicious Activity Reports 
   
• Jordan Peterson, guardian of the patriarchy 
   
• Cornell broke the law ahead of grad student union vote

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Katrina vanden Heuvel salutes the winners of the 2018 Hillman Prizes, aka the People’s Pulitzers. 
   
• The baby formula crime ring. 
   
• The real crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service
   
• Paul Ryan reinstates the House chaplain, whom he fired for speaking up for the poor. 
   
• Harvard will bargain with grad student union.