A former Army officer argues in the Atlantic that the U.S. military made major mistakes in Afghanistan, and says the collapse of government security forces there keeps him up at night. The Washington Post looks at what new census data says about America’s increasingly diverse population. Politico explains how the data will affect a congressional redistricting process that contains a lot of wild cards. The Sacramento Bee reports on how California is undertaking a prison overhaul based on the system used in Norway. There are questions over whether this approach will work in America. Smithsonian Magazine looks at a new discovery dinosaur researchers are calling “the closest thing we have to a real-life dragon.”

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