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1. Get rid of the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary.
By Dylan Matthews in Vox
2. Why are doctors so bad at telling patients they’re dying?
By Bob Tedeschi in Stat News
By Malala Yousafzai and Muzoon Almellehan in the Guardian
4. Flint’s water crisis was 50 years in the making.
By Andrew R. Highsmith in the Los Angeles Times
By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us
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