These are today's best ideas
1. Here’s how to fix the fight against wildfires.
By Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Ken Pimlott in the Los Angeles Times
2. With oil prices at historic lows, it’s time for a carbon tax.
By Kemal Derviş and Karim Foda in Project Syndicate
3. Let’s stop renting our cable boxes.
By Tom Wheeler in Re/Code
4. American schools are resegregating.
By Amy Piller in Vox
5. For his nominee to the Supreme Court, President Obama should look beyond Harvard and Yale.
By Dan Glickman in Bloomberg Government
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