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

• The Senate seems poised to pass a tax bill that raises taxes on working people and slashes them for corporations. 
   
• Michael Flynn pleads guilty to a tell-tale single charge of lying to federal investigators…suggesting he flipped on someone more senior.
   
• Chronic pain patients are becoming collateral damage in the opioid crisis. 
   
• Sexual harassment is a blue collar problem, too.
   
• Our friends at the Investigative Fund are looking for a senior editor to direct the Ida B. Wells fellowship program.