1. The U.S. dollar is strong. That’s good, right? Wrong.
By Jeff Spross in the Week
2. Educating the youth of the Middle East should be a foreign policy priority.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lauren Bohn at Project Syndicate
3. Tech billionaires are the new robber barons.
By Keith Emmer at Reuters
4. This is the dangerous force driving American workers.
By Kate Bielamowicz at JSTOR Daily
By the Economist

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