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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: #Hillman22 Videos, Unions, & Democracy

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AFGECreative Commons, 2011. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
     
  • Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
     
  • What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
     
  • Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP
     
  • Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)