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1. America’s biggest prisons are factories exporting prison gangs. Break them up.
By David Skarbek and Courtney Michaluk in Politico
2. Find out why demographics and a charismatic leader still aren’t enough to make a majority party.
By Suzy Khimm in the New Republic
3. Denied a seat at the table of global power, the BRICS nations are building their own table.
By Shashi Tharoor in Project Syndicate
4. With an implanted treatment that blocks a narcotic high, one doctor wants to end addiction.
By Sujata Gupta in Mosaic Science
5. Your next insurance inspector could be a drone.
By Cameron Graham in Technology Advice
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