Americas Very Own Greece
1. Puerto Rico is America's very own Greece. By Felix Salmon in Fusion, 2. What's behind the bloody surge in violent extremism? Competition. By Justin Conrad and Kevin Greene in Political Violence at a Glance, 3. With one decision, the Supreme Court opened the door to political innovation. The next part will be harder. By Francine Kiefer in the Christian Science Monitor, 4. The next nuclear accident is closer than you think. By Hugh Gusterson in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 5. Upgrading America's communications infrastructure wasn't important until Google did it. By James Surowiecki in MIT Technology Review