We Should Take Public Benefits Out of the Stone Age

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1. Let’s take public benefits out of the technology stone age.

By Julia B. Isaacs at the Urban Institute

2. We keep killing the ISIS second-in-command. Does it make a difference?

By Zack Beauchamp in Vox

3. Big U.S. cities aren’t ready for Zika’s springtime surge.

By Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy

4. AirBNB isn’t just for couch-crashing millennials.

By Eric Newcomer in Bloomberg

5. Can a dress shirt be racist?

By Moises Velasquez-Manoff in Backchannel

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