First Links—7.14.15

El Chapo Escapes Again
Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker

Is it Time for a National Divorce Law Too?
Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes

Harper Lee’s ‘Watchman’ Is a Mess That Makes Us Reconsider a Masterpiece
Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Freedom From Loneliness?
Michael Knowles, Point Magazine

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