Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

December 2015

December 18, 2015

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

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DonkeyHote, Creative Commons.

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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Duncan, Creative Commons.

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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Michael B. Jordan (2010) by colvanz718, Creative Commons.

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.