There Is No Longer a Center in American Politics

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

5. The ‘Asian’ population in California is wildly diverse, so why are they all lumped together as one ethnic group?

By Frank Shyong in the Los Angeles Times

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