1. Is 2015 the year China goes broke?
By Gordon G. Chang in the National Interest
2. Cable-only presidential debates are the new poll-tax.
By Susan Crawford in Backchannel
3. To feed the world, start with women’s rights.
By Tarja Halonen in Huffington Post
4. To fight rare cancers, one oncologist created an ‘online store’ of brain tumor tissue.
By Alex O’Brien in Mosaic
5. The nuclear deal isn’t the end of America’s work on Iran. It’s just the beginning.
By Nicholas Burns in the New York Times

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