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1. On Election Day, don’t think about yourself. Think about children when you cast your vote.
By Dipesh Navsaria in the Madison Capital Times
2. How America’s heroin epidemic is linked to U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
By Felipe Cruvinel at Ramen IR
3. Vacations are good for us and good for our employers. So why don’t we take them?
By L. V. Anderson in Slate
4. The CDC can’t use funds to study gun violence. Machines could do the research for free.
By Jordan Pearson in Motherboard
5. One more casualty of our changing climate: endangered languages.
By Kate Yoder in Grist
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