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1. Here’s how microfinancing can help vulnerable communities survive climate change.
By Mark Malloch Brown at Project Syndicate
2. The presidential campaigns are wrong. Here’s how to fix drug pricing under Medicare.
By Geoffrey F. Joyce and Neeraj Sood in STAT News
3. Is the model of Western military intervention broken? Maybe not.
By David H. Ucko in War on the Rocks
4. Career and technical education programs work. Why is it so hard to start one?
By Monica Disare in Chalkbeat
5. Try writing ‘anti-to-do’ lists instead.
By Kat Boogaard in FastCompany
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