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May 2016

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May 31st
- What I learned from The Hills
- What Chinese robots can tell us about the automation debate
May 29th
- How serious is Russia's military threat?
May 28th
- The week's best financial advice
- The fight over expanding overtime pay
May 27th
- The gobsmacking racism of America's criminal justice system
May 26th
- Britney Spears' legion of boom
- How the European Central Bank is playing a very stupid political game with Greece
- The commonplace monstrosity of Scream: The TV Series
May 25th
- How billionaires can destroy journalism
- The Catch-22 in Spotify's business model
- 5 lessons from Austria's near miss with the far right
May 24th
- Why Bayer really wants to buy Monsanto
May 20th
- How Grace and Frankie rehabilitated the TV wife
May 19th
- How Europe put Greece on permanent life support
May 17th
- How to fix Venezuela
May 16th
- How World War II reveals the actual limits of deficit spending
May 15th
- The new war on cancer
May 14th
- The week's best financial advice
May 12th
- Why solving homelessness is stupidly easy
May 11th
- How the world's biggest hedge funds became unkillable
May 9th
- Here's the silver lining to the dismal jobs report
May 8th
- How Facebook became so profitable
May 7th
- Chicago in crisis
- The week's best financial advice
May 3rd
- How the failed Halliburton-Baker Hughes deal reveals the problem with mergers
May 2nd
- How to solve the Puerto Rico crisis in 1 painful step
- Why you should be watching the NHL playoffs — even if you think you hate hockey
May 1st
- The week's best financial advice

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