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 

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

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

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

• Youth vote costs UK Tories their majority. 
   
• How twisted property taxes hurt the poor and helped the rich.
   
• Neo-Nazi website raised $150,000 to fight SPLC lawsuit.
   
• Workers shut down Libya’s biggest oil field to protest deadly working conditions.