Why We Should Get Rid of the Iowa Caucus

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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

3. The only thing more expensive than educating Syria’s refugee children is the cost of a lost generation.

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

5. Scientists might have discovered a genetic cause behind schizophrenia — a possible path to treatment.

By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us

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