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1. Transportation helped divide America in the past. Now it can help strengthen our nation.
By Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in the Aspen Journal of Ideas
2. To combat the lure of ISIS, the Muslim world needs its own Peace Corps.
By Bobby Ghosh in Quartz
3. Vladimir Putin isn’t a strategic genius.
By Michael A. McFaul in the New York Times
4. Why are biomedical superstars signing on with Google?
By Erika Check Hayden in Nature
5. Want better education policy? There’s a checklist for that.
By Rich Crandall and Danielle M. Gonzales in Governing
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