Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Elon Musk, ODs, & ER Follies

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Photo of Elon Musk, by Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Did Elon Musk break the law with an anti-union tweet?
Prosecutors are charging overdose survivors with their friends’ deaths.
ER Follies: When in-network patients get huge surprise bills
Study: Unions promote social equality

May 18, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Trump, Moscow & Jordan Peterson

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Mariano Mantel, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

How the Trump team worked the Trump Moscow deal during the 2016 campaign
Ronan Farrow and the case of the missing Suspicious Activity Reports
Jordan Peterson, guardian of the patriarchy
Cornell broke the law ahead of grad student union vote

May 11, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Sex Work, VA Sleaze, and Pandemics

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks:

Sex work is work, and criminalization is deadly.
Philosopher Kate Manne on Schneiderman and strangulation
The VA is abusing a “whistleblower law” to purge union workers.
White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly.
Firm that paid Michael Cohen is deeply tied to Russian oligarchs.

May 4, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Baby Formula Larceny; the White House Chaplain; and Harvard's New Union

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Ann Fisher, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks:

Katrina vanden Heuvel salutes the winners of the 2018 Hillman Prizes, aka the People’s Pulitzers.
The baby formula crime ring.
The real crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service
Paul Ryan reinstates the House chaplain, whom he fired for speaking up for the poor.
Harvard will bargain with grad student union.