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1. Powerful people make terrible group decisions.
By Corinne Purtill in Quartz
2. Give kids a culturally relevant education and they’ll stay — and thrive — in school.
By Brooke Donald at the Stanford Graduate School of Education
By Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley in Mosaic Science
4. Will the 2016 campaign finally break U.S. political parties?
By Jonathan Bernstein in Bloomberg View
5. Low prices give the world a chance to stop buying ‘blood oil.’
By Frank Vogl in the Globalist
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