The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Yes, climate change is intensifying Australia’s unprecedented wildfires.
   
• Home-invading NYPD cop who terrorized a family with racist abuse resigns from the force. 
   
• Unredacted documents prove Trump personally demanded an illegal freeze of fundsto Ukraine. 
   
• This was the decade of feminist uprisings in Latin America. 

• It is with great sadness that we report that Sidney Hillman’s daughter, Philoine, passed away on Sunday. Deepest condolences from all of us at the Sidney Hillman Foundation. She was a remarkable woman and we will miss her.

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Evangelical Christianity’s flagship magazine calls for Trump’s removal from office
   
• Your smart phone is ratting you out
   
• How Amazon squeezes its sellers
   
• “Putin Told Me”: How Trump got the idea Ukraine interfered in the election
   
• Why public college should be free

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Consulting giant McKinsey urged the Trump administration to cut back on food and medicine for detained immigrants.
   
• Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg can’t say what he did at McKinsey.
   
• Trump’s invisible wall
   
• Sidney-winner Michael Hiltzik takes a close look at Trump’s cruel new food stamp rules. 
   
• Sira Naturals becomes the first cannabis company to unionize in Massachusetts.

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the call for entries for the 2020 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!

The Hillman Prizes honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good. 

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Book
• Newspaper
• Magazine 
• Broadcast 
• Web
• Opinion & Analysis 

Each prize consists of a $5000 honorarium and travel to New York City to attend the awards ceremony. 

Deadline for applications is January 30, 2020. 

Click here for full details and to enter.