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1. YouTube is the world’s most popular music outlet, but nobody is making money.
By Shira Ovide and Leila Abboud in Bloomberg Gadfly
2. What should we do with captured ISIS fighters?
By Ali Watkins in BuzzFeed News
3. Here’s how to end the ‘invisible tax’ on black teachers.
By Secretary of Education John King in the Washington Post
4. Beyond paid leave: Is it time for a shorter work week?
By Isabel Sawhill at the Brookings Institution
5. This professor replaced his teaching assistant with an AI chatbot.
By Melissa Korn in the Wall Street Journal

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