1. Corporations now spend more lobbying Congress than taxpayers spend funding Congress.
By Ezra Klein in Vox
2. Customer satisfaction and quality health care aren’t the same.
By Alexandra Robbins in the Atlantic
3. Here’s how manufacturers can cut costs and carbon emissions.
By Ken Silverstein in Forbes
4. Why is the U.S. condemned to have second-rate train service?
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood in National Journal
5. Scientists want to use lasers to shoot down space junk.
By Marissa Fessenden at Smithsonian magazine
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