1. More technology won’t give your kids a better education.
By Kentaro Toyama in the Atlantic
2. Facing desperate drought, one California avocado farmer has doubled outputs with less water.
By Lesley McClurg at NPR
3. Could we reframe gun control as suicide prevention?
By Dylan Matthews in Vox
4. The war on sex work is the next war on drugs. And that’s not a good thing.
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Politico
5. Is Facebook making us paranoid parents?
By Margaret Santjer in Seattle’s Child

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