1. A Baltimore all-girls high school robotics team is bucking the trend for women in STEM education.
By Andrew Zaleski in the Baltimore Sun
By James Carroll in the Boston Globe
3. Congress — yes, that Congress — is about to pass a vital update to the Freedom of Information Act.
By Jason Leopold at Vice News
4. Discrimination against LGBT people isn’t just a civil rights violation, it’s bad economic policy.
By M. V. Lee Badgett at the New America Foundation
5. The truth is out about Russia. The EU must focus on the Balkans and think about the future.
By Judy Dempsey in RealClearWorld

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