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

• Should sex work be legal?
   
• London elects Sadiq Khan, the city’s first socialist Muslim mayor
   
• A political scientist explains why Donald Trump is a weak general election candidate
   
• The FBI orders cops to manufacture fictitious chain of evidence to hide surveillance
   

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

• The New York Times assails McDonald’s’ fat profits and lean wages
   
• Journalist hit with antisemitic abuse over GQ profile of Melania Trump
   
• The CIA waterboarded the wrong man 83 times in a month
   
• The Canadian shelter that gives wine to homeless alcoholics 
   
• The School of Authentic Journalism is now accepting applications for its Class of 2016
   
• “I hope you get raped again,” guys read female sportswriters’ hate tweets out loud

The Best of the Week’s News

• The explosive Panama Papers prove we can afford a Universal Basic Income 
   
• The editorial mastermind of the Panama Papers, Gerard Ryle, won a Sidney Award in 2012 
   
• Brown rice: a great source of fiber, ennui, and arsenic 
   
• NOLA judge releases inmates accused of murder and rape because there’s no money for public defenders
   

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

• Big Tobacco and Big Concussion
   
• Hillman judge Harold Meyerson on the Long March of Bernie’s Army
   
• “Solitary” with a cellmate: Two prisoners, one parking-space-sized cell
   
• Workplace power: There’s an app for that
   

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

• America’s whites-only weed boom
   
• Trump’s Tomatoes 
   
• How Sunday stopped being special for the American worker
   
• Are serious workplace injuries still under-reported?
   
• It’s no coincidence: When women take over a field, pay drops.