A few recent pieces I recommend:

Sarah Frostenson at Vox: Public health shouldn’t be contentious. But it’s incredibly polarizing.

Mallory Falk and Eve Troeh at WWNO: Kids, Trauma and New Orleans Schools

Vann R. Newkirk II in The Atlantic: Obamacare’s Unlikely Defenders

Andrés Miguel Rondón in the Washington Post: In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did.

Lizzie Presser in The California Sunday Magazine: Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.