These are today's five best
1. How elderly Americans are losing their rights.
By Rachel Aviv in the New Yorker
2. Is contract work killing the American dream?
By the Wharton School of Business
3. The world can’t afford a nuclear Iran. Here’s how to avoid that.
By Ernest J. Moniz at Boston Globe
4. Could being selfish prevent future depression?
By Michael Byrne in Motherboard
5. Your brain preserves the power to trust by believing immoral acts are impossible.
By Jonathan Phillips in Aeon
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