1. Our nation’s racial divide starts early: America’s public schools are still highly segregated.
By Reed Jordan at the Urban Institute
2. The Pentagon is getting bad advice about responsibly managing its budget and our national defense.
By Nora Bensahel in Defense One
3. “We need to step up our game to make sure that Putin’s rules do not govern the 21st century.”
By Madeleine Albright in Foreign Policy
4. Over a lifetime, and despite the high cost of tuition, a college education is still a great deal.
By Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
By Phil Schneider in the Aspen Journal of Ideas
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