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2. Did gerrymandering help polarize American politics?
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3. Why didn’t environmentalists sound the alarm about natural gas?
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4. How a long line of ‘worst-case scenarios’ at Facebook put our privacy at risk.
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5. There’s another opioid crisis: Shortages are causing medical mistakes and unmanaged pain.
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