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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Billionaires Sue to Nix California's Farm Worker Protections

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The Best of the Week’s News

 

  • These pomegranate barons are suing to roll back California’s protections for agricultural workers. (LAT)
     

  • Lawsuit alleges that KFC, McDonald’s and other major brands violated the Ku Klux Klan Act with forced prison labor. (Bloomberg)
     

  • Was British nurse’s conviction for the alleged murder of seven babies based on scapegoating and junk statistics? (New Yorker)
     

  • She ran for school board to fight Critical Race Theory in the classroom, she found there was none. (ProPublica)
     

  • How extremist settlers hijacked Israel’s democracy. (NYT)