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1. Smaller cities are making a comeback. Now all they need is jobs.
By Aaron Renn in CityLab
2. Iran is outgunning and outsmarting the U.S. across the Middle East. Here’s how.
By Borzou Daragahi at BuzzFeed News
3. What responsibility does the urban campus have to its city?
By the Chronicle of Higher Education
4. Having big tech companies police the web will do more harm than good.
By Tara Wadhwa and Gabriel Ng in Wired
5. The end of college football should be inevitable.
By John Warner at Inside Higher Ed

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