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January 11, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Waiting for the Glass Slipper to Drop; Ocasio-Cortez; and Elderly Murder-Suicides

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Historian Rick Perlstein talks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic trauma, and party renewal.
The forgotten wave of wildcat strikes that swept America.
Middle-class shame will determine the course of the nation.

Waiting for the glass slipper to drop: Prosecutors eye foreign cash and shady guests at Trump’s inaugural festivities.
When old men kill their wives, is it mercy or domestic violence?

January 4, 2019

Sidney's Picks: The Return of the Strike, Elizabeth Warren, and Low-Wage Workers

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The Best of the Week’s News:

The Return of the Strike
Don’t underestimate Elizabeth Warren
Why aren’t Democrats standing up for low-wage workers hurt by the shutdown?
“Fetal personhood” laws are hazardous to women’s health and freedom.

December 21, 2018

Sidney's Picks: The War on Local News; Citizenship and Grace

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Welcome to the solstice edition of Sindey’s Picks. Photo by fdecomite, Creative Commons.

Warmest Solstice Wishes from the Sidney’s Picks Team!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes lung surgery to remove cancerous nodules.
The fight to save local news and the war on reporter Mackenzie Mays.
Planned Parenthood accused of mistreating pregnant employees.
Michelle Alexander: “None of us deserve citizenship…”

December 14, 2018

Sidney's Picks: 7-year-old Girl Dies in Border Patrol Custody

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Streetscape in Philly’s Kensington neighborhood, where the DA’s office has sold off many homes seized thorugh civil forfeiture, often to speculators and cops.

The Best of the Week’s News:

7-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol Custody.
The Philly DA’s office has been selling seized homesto speculators and cops for decades. Will the new progressive DA continue the flawed program?
Doctors publishing in top medical journals hide their ties to industry.
Amazon’s anti-union record stirs bitter opposition in New York City.
How Russia sows disinformation to cover assassination attempts.

December 7, 2018

Sidney's Picks: 60 Minutes Sex Harassment, The NRA, and Pegasus

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The Best of the Week’s News:

60 Minutes was its own fiefdom complete with Droit de Seigneur.
Documents point to illegal campaign coordination between Trump and the NRA.
Infamous Pegasus software helped the Saudis spy on Khashoggi.
Trump’s incoming UN ambassador thinks the height of US/German relations was…D-Day.

November 30, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Acosta & Epstein; Moonves; and Putin

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Future Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta put child rapist Jeffrey Epstein above the law.
How CBS titan Les Moonves tried to silence the woman he allegedly raped.
The Trump Organization planned to give Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow.
Corporate “wellness programs” are just another way for your boss to spy on you.

November 20, 2018

2019 Hillman Prizes: Call For Entries on Now!

Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the call for entries for the 2019 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, 2019.

Click here for full details and to enter.

November 16, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Florida, Dwarf-Tossing, and Femicide

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Reinhard Link, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks:

The Resistance needs to hit the streets to defend democracy in Florida.
Trump’s pick to replace Kavanaugh is a defender of dwarf-tossing.
67 femicides cast a shadow over Mexican city.
Labor marks the 99th anniversary of the Centralia Massacre.

November 9, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Our Crackpot Acting AG, Mass Shootings, And Scott Walker's Downfall

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Bye bye, Scott!

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Our new acting AG penned an anti-Mueller op/ed, sat on the board of a fraudster firm, and touted crackpot legal theories.
The Newest Jim Crow
He survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas only to die in the mass shooting at Thousand Oaks.
Unions finally brought down Scott Walker, but the damage is done.

November 2, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Women in Prison; the Shadow Rulers of the VA; and Native American Women Candidates Making History

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The Best of the Week’s News:

The other family separation crisis: Women in prison
The latest on the shadow rulers of the VA, from Sidney-winner Isaac Arnsdorf.
Debunking right-wing myths about birthright citizenship.
What did Zinke do?
Female Native American candidates poised to make history in the midterms.

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Sidney's Picks: Waiting for the Glass Slipper to Drop; Ocasio-Cortez; and Elderly Murder-Suicides

Sidney's Picks: The Return of the Strike, Elizabeth Warren, and Low-Wage Workers

Sidney's Picks: The War on Local News; Citizenship and Grace

Sidney's Picks: 7-year-old Girl Dies in Border Patrol Custody

Sidney's Picks: 60 Minutes Sex Harassment, The NRA, and Pegasus

Sidney's Picks: Acosta & Epstein; Moonves; and Putin

2019 Hillman Prizes: Call For Entries on Now!

Sidney's Picks: Florida, Dwarf-Tossing, and Femicide

Sidney's Picks: Our Crackpot Acting AG, Mass Shootings, And Scott Walker's Downfall

Sidney's Picks: Women in Prison; the Shadow Rulers of the VA; and Native American Women Candidates Making History

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