1. Puerto Rico is America’s very own Greece.
By Felix Salmon in Fusion
2. What’s behind the bloody surge in violent extremism? Competition.
By Justin Conrad and Kevin Greene in Political Violence at a Glance
By Francine Kiefer in the Christian Science Monitor
4. The next nuclear accident is closer than you think.
By Hugh Gusterson in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
5. Upgrading America’s communications infrastructure wasn’t important until Google did it.
By James Surowiecki in MIT Technology Review

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