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. 

The Best of the Week’s News 

• Racism is literally killing Black mothers and babies. 
   
• Brazilian lawmakers add “Lula” to their names as a popular ex-president goes to jail and democracy hangs in the balance. 
   
• The Trump admin seeks to deport longtime Vietnamese immigrants, despite a treaty allowing them to stay. 
   
• Scott Pruitt wanted to swap out the EPA logo because he thought it looked like a pot plant, let garbage pile up.
   

2018 Canadian Hillman Highlights: 

• Jayme Poisson and David Bruser win the 2018 Canadian Hillman Prize for exposing mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows, Ontario. 
   
• “The Price of Oil” garners an honorable mention for an historic multi-outlet team. 
   
• VICE News Canada takes home an honorable mention for “Canada’s Indigenous Water Crisis.”
   
• Check out the official photos from Wednesday’s Canadian Hillman Prize ceremony.