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

• Who’s afraid of the Fight for 15? McDonald’s closes headquarters amid protests 
   
• Yelp meltdown: Chiropractors flip out over 1-star reviews
   
• What happened to Salon?
   
• Inside the FBI’s elite art crime squad
   

The Best of the Week’s News

• How the Olive Garden and the banks replaced paychecks with fee-laden debit cards
   
• Americans don’t miss manufacturing, we miss unions
   
• More coverage of the sometimes deadly H2 visa program from our Sidney Award-winners at Buzzfeed
   
• Check out the Workers Unite! Film Festival in New York City, on now through May 26

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