1. Outside Hong Kong, the Silence Is Deafening by Tyler Cowen (politics)
2. The Legal Clause That Makes Brexiteers Furious—And Why They Have a Point by Tom McTague (politics)
3. The Anthropocene Is a Joke. On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch by Peter Brannen (climate)
4. The History of the World: Every Year by Ollie Bye (history)
5. US health care is literally killing people by Tim Harford (healthcare)