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After Years Of Abuse By Priests, #NunsToo Are Speaking Out By Sylvia Poggioli (NPR)
A History Of Opioids In America By Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah (NPR)
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It By Howard Berkes, Huo Jingnan, and Robert Benincasa (NPR)
Annenberg Foundation
A record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement amid growing disenchantment with standardized tests By Valerie Strauss (The Washington Post)
A rural community loses its hospital — a standalone ER fills the gap By Sam Whitehead (Marketplace)
A U.S. Army Tweet Asking 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Got An Agonizing Response By Stacey Samuel and Shannon Van Sant (NPR)
A Woman’s Rights: In Eight Parts (The New York Times)
Beautiful Solutions
Berggruen Institute
B Corporation
B the Change
Center for Constitutional Rights
Corporations Are Getting Better at Gutting Worker Protections By Kriston Capps (City Lab)
Costs of War (Watson Institute For International And Public Affairs, Brown University)
Defending Digital Democracy Project (Harvard Kennedy School)
Desperation And Broken Trust When Schools Restrain Students Or Lock Them In Rooms By Jenny Abamu and Rob Manning (NPR)
Employer Power Is About More Than Just Market Concentration By Dwyer Gunn (Pacific Standard)
Erasing the hate: the tattoo shop offering former white supremacists a fresh start By Deborah Bloom (The Guardian)
Finland’s Schools (Film clip from Michael Moore’s Where to we invade next?)
How an outsider in Alzheimer’s research bucked the prevailing theory — and clawed for validation By Sharon Begley (Stat)
How this women-run startup is revolutionizing the fashion industry (Fast Company)
Innocence Project
Inequality.org
Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn By Austin Carr (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Institute for Cross Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute of Governmental Studies (UC Berkeley)
Kerry Initiative (Yale University)
Lawless By Kyle Hopkins (Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica)
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality. By By Erica L. Green and Katie Benner (The New York Times)
Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was. By Brian Resnick (Vox)
National Ethics Project (Stanford University)
New Dream
One Nation Under Stress: the documentary lifting the lid on American anxiety By Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
Open Society Foundation
Peace Engineering (Drexel University)
PeaceWorks Foundation
Pew Research Center
Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It. By Stephanie Saul and Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
Robots 'to replace up to 20 million factory jobs' by 2030 By Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Study looks at where the IRS audits more and less By Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace)
Survivors Of Sexual Abuse By Nuns Want Greater Visibility For Their Accusations By Laura Benshoff (NPR)
Teaching Tolerance
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations By Allan Richarz (City Lab)
The anti-gay extremist behind America's fiercely strict abortion bans By Jessica Glenza (The Guardian)
The Brookings Institute
The Clink Charity
The Club of Rome
The end of the line. Photo essay By Latoya Ruby Frazier Text By Dan Kaufman (The New York Times)
The Hastings Center - Bioethics Research Institute
The Long Now Project
The maimed and the healing By Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers (Aeon)
The 99% Is a Myth—Here's How It Breaks Down (The Atlantic)
The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings By Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Times)
The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood By Raymond Barglow (Skeptic)
The Prison Portraits (The Marshall Project)
The Repurposing of the American Jail By Jessica Pishko (The Atlantic)
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease By Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)
The Sentencing Project
The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America By Casey Newton (The Verge)
The whitewashing of Japan’s Naomi Osaka was no accident By Baye McNeil (The Washington Post)
The Wrong Goodbye By Joe Sexton and Nate Schweber (ProPublica)
They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000 By Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
Time to update the Nobels By Brian Keating (Aeon)
Virtues of uncertainty By Guy Claxton (Aeon)
We Are All Confident Idiots By David Dunning (Pacific Standard)
'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills By Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease By Christian H. Cooper (Nautilus)
Why the U.S. can’t replicate Finland’s educational success By Kevin Dickinson (Big Think)