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1. It’s Halloween. Here’s what really scares Americans.
By Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West at the Brookings Institution
2. Thank you for cheating, Volkswagen.
By Pablo Valerio in Cities of the Future
3. The U.S. was right to sail past China’s artificial islands.
By J. Randy Forbes in the National Interest
4. Robots are teaching things to each other. Is that a good thing?
By Will Knight in MIT Technology Review
5. Paying off student loans just got easier.
By Jason Stauffer at Next Advisor
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