The Best of the Week’s News

• “God is a Parrot”: How psittacines help veterans conquer PTSD.
   
• Hillman Prize-winner Seth Freed-Wessler shines a light on deaths in immigration detention. Support his ongoing investigation.
   
•  Drug shortages lead to hidden health care rationing.
   
• A hacker has exposed the private data of the nation’s biggest police union. 
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• How Flint, Michigan sacrificed its children’s brains on the altar of austerity. 
   
• How absurd lenience for Cliven Bundy set the stage for the Vanilla ISIS bird sanctuary siege in Oregon. 
   
• A brief history of “immigrant horde“ campaign ads, a time-honored motif for demagogues. 
   
• An elite test tutor explains how myths about the SAT separate the 1% from their money. 

The Best of the Week’s News

• What is it like to be deported?  
   
• Workers at Trump hotel vote to unionize.
   
• Strippers organize for rights at work.
   
• Conspiracy theories are choking conservative politics. 

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

• How Walmart spies on union organizers.  
   
• The high price of cheap toys.
   
• Fast casual workers left out of the Fight for Fifteen. 
   
• The Fort Knox of Food.
   
• Covering the 1%.