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1. This presidential campaign already has a third-party candidate.
By Nate Silver in FiveThirtyEight
2. How inequality creates obesity.
By Tom Jacobs in Pacific Standard
3. Sports is over-commercialized now, but it’s about to get worse.
By Joe Pinsker in The Atlantic
4. Rich countries should leave fossil fuels in the ground and let poor countries sell theirs.
By Michele de Nevers at the Center for Global Development
By Alison Benjamin and Toby Moses in The Guardian

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