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1. Let’s take public benefits out of the technology stone age.
By Julia B. Isaacs at the Urban Institute
2. We keep killing the ISIS second-in-command. Does it make a difference?
By Zack Beauchamp in Vox
3. Big U.S. cities aren’t ready for Zika’s springtime surge.
By Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy
4. AirBNB isn’t just for couch-crashing millennials.
By Eric Newcomer in Bloomberg
5. Can a dress shirt be racist?
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff in Backchannel

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