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1. Feeling down? Take some time off…from Facebook.
By Helen Russell in the Guardian
2. Here’s how bailing out GM helped China.
By Edward Niedermeyer in Bloomberg View
3. The Department of Homeland Security wants to turn every employee into a nuclear threat detector.
By Mohana Ravindranath in NextGov
4. Tax policy is boring. But it’s the best way to take on income inequality.
By Ezra Levin and David Newville at the Corporation for Enterprise Development
5. Europe shouldn’t fall for the Islamic State’s trap.
By Harleen Gambhir in the Washington Post
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