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1. Two top diplomats have a message about America’s foreign service: It’s “too white.”
By Thomas R. Pickering and Edward J. Perkins in the Washington Post
2. Can we ‘test’ strategies against poverty like we test new medicines?
By Michaeleen Doucleff in Goats and Soda by NPR
3. Here’s why the fall of one town to ISIS might push Iraq toward total sectarian war.
By Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker
4. When HIV patients drop out of care, they die. Kenya found a way to prevent that.
By the University of California San Francisco
5. We can end the illegal sex trade.
By Jimmy Carter and Swanee Hunt in Politico
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