Arizona’s controversial election audit is drawing growing criticism. The Washington Post explains why many elections experts are raising red flags. And Vox looks at how former president Trump’s false election-fraud claims are affecting the Republican Party. In the Atlantic, Zeynep Tufekci argues that the recent Colonial Pipeline hack needs to be a wake-up call to fix major security problems in the code that runs our infrastructure. President Biden is proposing to set aside $200 billion dollars to fund universal preschool. NPR’s Planet Money details research on how beneficial early education can be. In the early weeks of the pandemic, rush-hour traffic practically disappeared. But the Wall Street Journal reports it’s coming back, where we might least expect it: the afternoons.

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