By TIME Staff
1. Slavery’s long shadow is inextricably linked to modern income inequality in the south.
By Stephen Mihm in the Boston Globe
2. Superdistricts in the House of Representatives could end the tyranny of incumbency in Congress.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel in the Washington Post
3. Yelp the Police: Georgia teens build an app to rate law enforcement interactions.
By Rebecca Borison in Business Insider
By Michele Dunn and Scott Williamson at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
By Amber Jackson in Huffington Post
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