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September 8, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

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

Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Our First White President”
How Michigan gambled and lost on charter schools
How Facebook undermines its own fake-news-fighting program
How sketchy rehab centers troll for clients online
A tale of two janitors

September 1, 2017

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

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The Best of the Week’s News

What if Trump ends DACA?
Right wing alliance plots to “defund and defang” the labor movement
Trump offers snake oil solutions to the opioid problem
Utah nurse stands up to cop, refuses to take illegal blood sample, gets arrested

August 25, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

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

Dylann Roof: A Most American Terrorist
Day laborers have a First Amendment right to ask for work, court rules
Sidney Award-winner Alec MacGillis on how Ben Carson is deconstructing HUD
David Duke was my godfather…

August 4, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

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Thomas Hawke, Creative Commons. Chosen in honor of the Nissan plant organizers’ radical commitment to repairing both class- and race-based injustice at the Nissan plant in Canton.

The Best of the Week’s News

As Mueller’s grand juries make headlines, Senators move to protect him from Trump.
The fate of Obama’s climate-protecting Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance.
Organizers merge race and class justice in bid to unionize Nissan plant.
Hillman Judge Jelani Cobb on Trump’s racial resentment agenda.

July 28, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

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The Best of the Week’s News

GOP moderates and a united Democratic caucus save Obamacare
Someone is selling over 40 million voter records on the Dark Web.
When the government pays poverty wages
William Regnery II: Moneyman of the racist right

July 21, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

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The Best of the Week’s News

Can the president pardon himself?
Sidney-winner Sarah Maslin Nir reports on NY farm workers fighting for the right to organize.
States are criminalizing protest.
The Blue Collar Philanthropist

July 14, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

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

FCC commish urges ALEC to help squash net neutrality.
Snot snakes snarl Oregon highway.
GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers commits suicide.
Read Trump’s lawyer’s bizarre tirade to a stranger.

July 7, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Wages, the "Journocaust," and a Lawful Good Bard

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

Survey: Almost half of Americans spend their whole paycheck (or more) on basic expenses
Reporter deluged with alt-right death threats for exposing Redditor’s anti-semitic back catalog
Guns, lobbyists and sonograms: Is Texas the US’s future?
A Muslim recruit’s hazing death reveals a dark side of the US Marine Corps
James Comey as bard

June 30, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Migrants, Hate Crimes, and Russian Hackers

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Lynn Friedman, Creative Commons, “No Human Being is Illegal.”

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

Russian hackers, Hillary’s emails, and Michael Flynn
White House demands voter data from all 50 states as part of “voter fraud” inquiry, states refuse.
The business of migrant bodies
Waiting for death in Thunder Bay

June 23, 2017

Sidney's Picks: GOP Health Care Bill of Doom, Russia, and Yemen

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

The rich win big, and the poor and disabled lose out in the Republican’s health care bill
Inside Russia’s bold campaign to influence the 2016 election
NH legislation would have legalized murder by pregnant women.
Circle of Fire: Inside Yemen’s secret prisons

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Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

Sidney's Picks: Wages, the "Journocaust," and a Lawful Good Bard

Sidney's Picks: Migrants, Hate Crimes, and Russian Hackers

Sidney's Picks: GOP Health Care Bill of Doom, Russia, and Yemen

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Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

Sidney's Picks: Wages, the "Journocaust," and a Lawful Good Bard

Sidney's Picks: Migrants, Hate Crimes, and Russian Hackers

Sidney's Picks: GOP Health Care Bill of Doom, Russia, and Yemen

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