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1. Don’t privatize America’s national parks.
By William Lowry and John Freemuth in the Conversation
2. Nations can be startups, too.
By Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg View
3. While national efforts to address mass incarceration falter, progress is happening locally.
By Hanna Love at the Urban Institute
4. Rising nationalism is the biggest threat to space exploration.
By James O’Malley in How We Get To Next
5. Let’s have a millennial moderate the presidential debates.
By Alexis Madrigal and Dodai Stewart in the Washington Post
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