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1. It’s time to kill the performance review.
By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us
2. Give communities a valuable summertime resource: Open school grounds for play.
By the editorial board of the Fresno Bee
3. Could we outlaw street harassment?
By Daniel Serrano in Vice
4. We should be able to answer this simple question: How many people die in police custody?
By the editorial board of Bloomberg View
By Ron Klain in Democracy
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