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1. The center is dead in American politics.
By Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker
2. There’s a downside to the “Uber for everything” economy.
By Zeynep Tufecki in Message
3. Could a free trade zone on the India-Pakistan border reduce tensions there?
By the Editors of Bloomberg View
4. Here’s a better highway barrier — one that blocks sound and sucks up pollution.
By Adele Peters in Co.Exist
By Frank Shyong in the Los Angeles Times
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