1. Let’s put a national security expert on the Supreme Court.
By Shane Reeves and Winston Williams in Lawfare
2. Get veterans back into America’s cancer trials.
By Bob Tedeschi in Stat
3. Can we recycle soot and smog?
By Linda Poon at CityLab
4. Communities are crowdsourcing meat lockers so they can buy sustainable meat.
By Caroline Abels in Civil Eats
5. It’s not too late to save the video store.
By Jason Bailey in Flavorwire

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