These are today's best ideas
1. Before the end of his term, here’s what President Obama should do to our drone war.
By Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman in the New York Times
2. BlackLivesMatter went from hashtag to movement. Here’s how.
By Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark at the AU Center for Media and Social Impact
3. The very idea of sharing has been hijacked.
By Lily Cole and Adam Werbach in Medium
4. Here’s how to fight food poisoning outbreaks with machine learning and social media.
By the National Science Foundation
5. The media is missing the story behind the global rise of women.
By Anne Mosle and Peggy Clark in Huffington Post
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