Why the Pentagon Can’t Work Like a Business

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1. Here’s what happens when you try to run the Pentagon like a business. (It isn’t good.)

By Bryan Bender in Politico

2. How to fix living organ donation.

By Josh Morrison in the Washington Post

3. The story of the Arab Spring is far from over.

By Iyad El-Baghdadi in Al Jazeera America

4. In Silicon Valley, it’s now winner-take-all.

By Om Malik in the New Yorker

5. We’re on the brink of a banking revolution.

By Walter Isaacson in the Wall Street Journal

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