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February 5, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Chipotle Truthers, Uber Drivers, and Zika

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

Meet the Chipotle Truthers.
A new drive to unionize Uber drivers in New York City.
Notes from the Zika beat.
Ted Cruz’s college roommate gets his revenge.

January 29, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Parrots, PTSD, and the Fraternal Order of Police

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The Best of the Week’s News

“God is a Parrot”: How psittacines help veterans conquer PTSD.
Hillman Prize-winner Seth Freed-Wessler shines a light on deaths in immigration detention. Support his ongoing investigation.
Drug shortages lead to hidden health care rationing.
A hacker has exposed the private data of the nation’s biggest police union.

January 15, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Dark Money, Canuckophobia, and Free Harvard

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The Best of the Week’s News

Some groups fighting “dark money” in politics are less than forthcoming about their own finances.
Ted Cruz and the Fear of a Canadian Planet
The Supreme Court decision that could spell the end of organized labor.
The complex racial politics behind the drive to make Harvard tuition-free.

January 8, 2016

Sidney's Picks: Lead Poisoning, SAT Angst, Vanilla ISIS, and other Perils of Modern Life

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The Best of the Week’s News

How Flint, Michigan sacrificed its children’s brains on the altar of austerity.
How absurd lenience for Cliven Bundy set the stage for the Vanilla ISIS bird sanctuary siege in Oregon.
A brief history of “immigrant horde“ campaign ads, a time-honored motif for demagogues.
An elite test tutor explains how myths about the SAT separate the 1% from their money.

December 18, 2015

Sidney's Picks: Budget Bust for Big Business, GOP Islamophobia, and Invisible Street Kids

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The Best of the Week’s News

Big business gets a lump of coal from the Obama administration.
Who will stop Republican Islamophobia?
The invisible street kids of Philly.
Barbara Ehrenreich on what’s killing the white working class.

December 11, 2015

Sidney's Picks: Deportees, Strippers, and Conspiracy Theorists

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The Best of the Week’s News

What is it like to be deported?
Workers at Trump hotel vote to unionize.
Strippers organize for rights at work.
Conspiracy theories are choking conservative politics.

December 4, 2015

Sidney's Picks: 'Just Mercy' the Movie, Voting Rights, and Coconuttery

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The Best of the Week’s News

Michael B. Jordan will play Bryan Stevenson in the film adaptation of Stevenson’s legal memoir “Just Mercy.”
‘One Person, One Vote” under attack.
A closer look at the US attack on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.
Before juice cleanses, before gulten-free-everything, there was the cult of the coconut.

November 27, 2015

Sidney's Picks: Walmart's Spies, Black Friday, and the Fort Knox of Food

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

How Walmart spies on union organizers.
The high price of cheap toys.
Fast casual workers left out of the Fight for Fifteen.
The Fort Knox of Food.
Covering the 1%.

November 20, 2015

Sidney's Picks: Trump, Xenophobia, and Outlaw Gold

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The Best of the Week’s News

Donald Trump and xenophobia.
What a researcher learned from interviewing captured ISIS fighters.
When temp workers die in transit, who’s responsible?
Illegally mined Colombian gold sold in the United States.
How Black Lives Matter became a force on campus.

November 13, 2015

Sidney's Picks: Struggle, Captivity, and Mutiny

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The Best of the Week’s News

“Tough love” ends in tragedy at a remote teen boot camp.
Greed, deceit, and mutiny on the Majestic Blue.
Time to bust the trusts again.
Walmart workers are fasting for $15/hr.

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Sidney's Picks: Chipotle Truthers, Uber Drivers, and Zika

Sidney's Picks: Parrots, PTSD, and the Fraternal Order of Police

Sidney's Picks: Dark Money, Canuckophobia, and Free Harvard

Sidney's Picks: Lead Poisoning, SAT Angst, Vanilla ISIS, and other Perils of Modern Life

Sidney's Picks: Budget Bust for Big Business, GOP Islamophobia, and Invisible Street Kids

Sidney's Picks: Deportees, Strippers, and Conspiracy Theorists

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