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September 9, 2016

Sidney's Picks: When the PD Goes Broke; The Cat Worshippers of Nashville

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

The Marshall Project kicks off a three-part series on the cash-strapped public defender system of Louisiana.
School teachers are driving for Uber to make ends meet.
Meet the cat-worshiping end times cult of Nashville.
Dreamer’s scholarship yanked just before his first class

September 2, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Labor Day Edition

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Happy Labor Day, Brothers and Sisters!

Arizonans will vote on a $12/hr minimum wage in November, despite efforts to keep the question off the ballot
10,000 workers accuse Chipotle of wage theft
If private sector unions were as strong today as they were in 1979, the average worker would earn $2704 more each year
Volkswagen must bargain with its skilled trades employees at UAW Local 42, the NLRB has ruled

August 26, 2016

Sidney's Picks: The End of Federal Private Prisons and the Power of Investigative Reporting

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The Best of the Week’s News

Hillman judge Katrina vanden Huevel on the end of federal private prisons and the importance of investigative reporting
ALEC and the Koch Brothers set their sights on the Constitution
Hillman Prize-winners take stock of extreme poverty 20 years after welfare reform
National Freight, Inc. is on the hook for a million dollars in back wages for overtime violations

August 19, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Feds to Ditch Private Prisons

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After reporting by Hillman Prize-winners Shane Bauer and Seth Freed Wessler, the federal government vows to ditch private prisons
A tale of Munchausen Syndrome and murder
Pro-life? Pregnancy deaths nearly doubled in Texas after health care cuts
A $600 death sentence: The race to save a patient who earned too much for Medicaid

August 12, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Michael Brown; Necessary Trouble; and Get That Baby Out of Here

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The Best of the Week’s News

Think tank scholar, corporate consultant, or both?
“It’s very easy to become numb…” An oral history of the shooting of Michael Brown
Sarah Jaffe’s “Necessary Trouble” is a guided tour of American radicalism.
Get that baby out of here: Trump’s child care plan would moslty benefit the rich

August 5, 2016

Sidney's Picks: CT Gov Nixes Ethics $$; Trump Channels McCarthy

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

Connecticut governor slashes ethics funding while he’s under investigation
Trump’s Indecent Proposal
Facebook lets cops hide citizens’ videos through “law enforcement portal”
Sidney-winner Danielle Ivory talks 911 and Wall Street on DemocracyNow!

July 22, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Purvi Patel, Sketchy Sperm Banks, and Foreclosure Frauds

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The Best of the Week’s News

An appeals court in Indiana partially reverses Purvi Patel’s feticide conviction
Buyers beware: Sperm banks are largely unregulated
New documents shed light on the unholy alliance between Big Oil and Big Tobacco
How sleazy lawyers profit from desperate homeowners facing foreclosure

July 15, 2016

Sidney's Picks: OSHA, Trump's White Supremacist Buds, and Sushi Skullduggery

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The Best of the Week’s News

OSHA harnesses Big Data to protect workers
Nick Confessore on Donald Trump and white supremacy
Child deaths rose 71% in the Dallas County foster care system this year
Sushi lovers despair: Bait-and-switch is the norm

July 8, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Dallas Shooting, Black Lives, and White Blindness

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

Why Alton Sterling and Philando Castile are dead: racism plus over-policing
Michael Eric Dyson on whiteness as blindness
Victims of the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh have finally been compensated for their losses
Feet in 2 Worlds launches Unidos, an app to help young Latino voters register to vote, and more

June 24, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Private Prison Confidential & The Other Smoke Inhalation Lobby

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UMWomen, Creative Commons. A giant puppet flaps in the breeze at a protest outside a Corrections Corporation of America facility in Texas. Shane Bauer went undercover as a CCA guard in Louisiana.

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

Hillman Prize-winner Shane Bauer spent four months undercover in a private prison
The homebuilders’ lobby would let you burn to death in your sleep to save a few bucks
By this point in the campaign, Romney had more offices than Trump has staffers
What does last night’s Brexit victory mean for the global economy?

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Sidney's Picks: When the PD Goes Broke; The Cat Worshippers of Nashville

Sidney's Picks: Labor Day Edition

Sidney's Picks: The End of Federal Private Prisons and the Power of Investigative Reporting

Sidney's Picks: Feds to Ditch Private Prisons

Sidney's Picks: Michael Brown; Necessary Trouble; and Get That Baby Out of Here

Sidney's Picks: CT Gov Nixes Ethics $$; Trump Channels McCarthy

Sidney's Picks: Purvi Patel, Sketchy Sperm Banks, and Foreclosure Frauds

Sidney's Picks: OSHA, Trump's White Supremacist Buds, and Sushi Skullduggery

Sidney's Picks: Dallas Shooting, Black Lives, and White Blindness

Sidney's Picks: Private Prison Confidential & The Other Smoke Inhalation Lobby

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