What We’re Reading Across Medium This Week

A collection of stories that offer varying perspectives from the missing middle.

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Politics

Dustin Arand argues in Predict that nationalist isolationism leads to weakness and falling behind, using the post-BREXIT United Kingdom as a glaring example.

Why “America First” Will Make America Last

Cory Doctorow on the failures of the two-party system and the sub-movements that are resulting.

When parties fail, movements step up

The Economy

Roderick Graham writes about the disconnect between our culture, the primary education system, and the number of unfulfilled, high-paying skilled jobs that do not require a college degree.