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1. Russia just claimed half a million square miles of the Arctic. They won’t get it.
By Paul Stronski at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
2. Here’s why wages are flat and how to fix it.
By Thomas Kochan in the Conversation
3. See how scientists created human “tissue velcro” to repair damaged hearts.
By Tyler Irving in University of Toronto Engineering News
4. Are the billions we spend training the militaries of other nations worth it?
By Matthew Saintsing in Small Wars Journal
5. What Donald Trump gets wrong about the border.
By Abigail Golden-Vazquez in the Aspen Idea
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