These are today's best ideas
1. Should the Pentagon create new brigades solely to train foreign armies?
By Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. in Breaking Defense
2. The GOP should be leading on clean energy.
By Arnold Schwarzenegger and Per Espen Stoknes in CNN
3. Why aren’t we more worried about nuclear security?
By the editorial board of the Washington Post
4. Here’s how data can help combat mental illness stigma.
By Neil Seeman in Nature
5. Can American police learn to avoid deadly force?
By Al Baker in the New York Times
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