1. “We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation.”
By Joe Biden in the Atlantic
2. Why we must still defend free speech.
By David Cole in the New York Review of Books
3. Move Americans to jobs, not the other way around.
By Mihir Desai in Bloomberg View
4. When shopping online, don’t let reviews fool you into making bad decisions.
By the Association for Psychological Science
5. New research says we might pick life partners who look familiar.
By Tamsin Saxton in Aeon

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