1. What does the world’s indifference to Syria’s horror tell us about ourselves?
By Barry Malone at Al Jazeera English on Medium
2. California has about one year of water left.
By Jay Famiglietti in the Los Angeles Times
3. Traditional democratic institutions are failing. It’s time for an upgrade.
By John Boik, Lorenzo Fioramonti, and Gary Milante in Foreign Policy
By Brad Plumer in Vox
5. Can we build an Internet that includes the hearing impaired?
By Steve Friess in Time

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