How Recycling Rainwater Could Beat California’s Drought

1. Why don’t we recycle rainwater?

By Matt Stevens in the Los Angeles Times

2. It’s been a year since U.S.-Cuba relations warmed. Is Cuba more free?

By Charles Lane in the Washington Post

3. In American politics, women are back in the driver’s seat.

By Clare Malone in FiveThirtyEight

4. America’s opioid abuse problem didn’t start on the streets. It started in the doctor’s office.

By Francie Diep in Pacific Standard

5. When we debate monuments from America’s past, context matters.

By Walter Isaacson in the New Orleans Advocate

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