Here are the ten articles that I’ve learned from this week:

1. The Fix’s 40 Most Interesting Women in Politics (The Washington Post)
2. ‘It’s Barack. Really!’ (Politico)
3. Multiple male legislators refuse to be alone with female staffers. That’s a big problem. (Vox)
4. Rand Paul girds for battle on NSA (Politico)
   1. Update: Rand Paul speaks 11 hours against Patriot Act renewal (The Washington Post)
5. Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her (Vox)
6. Why Presidential Candidate Debate (Politico)
7. Bernie Sanders’s plan to have Wall Street pay for your college tuition, explained (Vox)
8. Why Congress Can’t Solve America’s Infrastructure Crisis (The Atlantic)
9. Media coverage of gang violence sure looks different when the perpetrators are white (Vox)
10. The Silicon Tower (Slate)

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Here are the ten articles that I’ve learned from this week:

1. Senate Democrats Relent on Trade (The Atlantic)
2. Here’s how the GOP candidates are answering “Would you have invaded Iraq?” (Vox)
3. What’s the Point of a Professor? (The New York Times)
4. Burundi President Nkurunziza faces attempted coup (BBC News)
5. Black Girls Should Matter, Too (The Atlantic)
6. New York’s emergency crackdown on abuses at nail salons, explained (Vox)
7. Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life Balance and Income Equality (The Atlantic)
8. Why Nepal is Still Being Hit by Earthquakes (Time Magazine)
9. Progressive favorite Russ Feingold is running for the Senate seat he lost in 2010 (Vox)
10. The Bitter Backdrop to 2016 (The New York Times)

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It’s time for the second installment of the Informed Weekend series. Here are the ten articles that I’ve learned from this week:

1. The next president will have a huge impact on climate policy – even without Congress (Vox)
2. Facebook Study Disputes Theory of Political Polarization Among Users (The New York Times)
   1. Related: Users are Main Filters of Political Content on Facebook (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
3. No, Chris Cuomo, the Constitution doesn’t let the government ban hate speech (Vox)
4. The 2016 Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet (The Atlantic)
5. U. S. Split Along Racial Lines on Backlash Against Police, Poll Finds (The Wall Street Journal)
6. The Audacity of Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina (The Atlantic)
7. The GOP presidential field is unusually diverse. But the party’s agenda isn’t (The Washington Post)
8. Hillary just took a stunningly aggressive stance on immigration reform (Vox)
9. How ‘Negative Partisanship’ Has Transformed American Politics (New York Magazine)
10. Student Loan Facts They Wish They Had Known (The New York Times)

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I read many articles each week that I learn from and want to share with others. Thus, I have decided to try out a new weekly series. This series will consist of posting links to approximately ten articles that I read and found interesting each week.

Here are the ten articles that I’ve learned from this week: 

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