1. There’s a downside to cheap gas.
By Joe Cortright in City Observatory
2. Can we teach coal miners to code?
By Lauren Smiley in Backchannel
3. Teachers are swapping better pay for subsidized housing.
By Rachel M. Cohen in the American Prospect
4. Can we afford to keep paying for college athletics?
By Brad Wolverton, Ben Hallman, Shane Shifflett, and Sandhya Kambhampati in the Huffington Post
5. Is Anonymous vs. ISIS the first true cyberwar?
By Charlie Firestone in the World Post

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