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1. This is how China feeds 1.4 billion people.
By ChinaPower from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
2. What does a more humane drug policy look like?
By Altaf Rahamatulla at the Ford Foundation
3. Climate change might leave a bad taste in your mouth. Literally.
By Julia Franz in Science Friday from PRI
4. This is why it’s so important for the U.S. Census to get information on LGBT Americans.
By Daniel Kuehn at the Urban Institute
5. Nuclear power is worth saving. Here’s why.
By the Editors at Bloomberg View

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