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1. Nice try, but car rationing won’t really clean up Delhi’s polluted air.
By Tanvi Misra in CityLab
2. Meet the school that built an instruction model around failure.
By Mary Jo Madda in EdSurge
3. America isn’t equipped for today’s “gray” wars.
By Eric Olson in Defense One
4. Here’s why labor-saving technology is actually making us less productive — for now.
By Barry Eichengreen at Project Syndicate
5. Americans say they want cleaner energy, so why are we buying gas guzzling cars again?
By Aaron Nathans at the American Institute for Economic Research
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