Check out these recent articles from around the web:

How Progressive Policies Can Strengthen Marriage and Family Life by Shawn Fremstad and Melissa Boteach: “We should reform work-family policies to ensure that all workers have access to the kinds of family-related benefits that most higher-income workers have, including paid family leave, earned sick days, the right to request flexible and predictable schedules, and high-quality child care.”

The Parent Agenda, the Emerging Democratic Focus by Nate Cohn: “The emerging Democratic agenda is meant to appeal to parents. The policies under discussion — paid family leave; universal preschool; an expanded earned-income tax credit and child tax credit; free community college and perhaps free four-year college in time — are intended both to alleviate the burdens on middle-class families and to expand educational opportunity for children. The result is a thematic platform addressing some of the biggest sources of anxiety about the future of the middle class.”

How educating children early and well creates a ripple effect for us all by Catherine Rampell: “Advocates of high-quality early-childhood education usually fall into two relatively siloed camps: those who see it as an efficient way of giving poor kids a shot at moving up in the world, and those who see it as a valuable work support. In truth, it is both.”

Save the Children’s Insurance by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Frist: “Reauthorizing CHIP for the next four years would cost about $10 billion — an investment in our children that will pay off for decades to come. This is an opportunity to send a message that Washington is still capable of making common-sense progress for American families.”

Payday Loans Are Bleeding American Workers Dry. Finally, the Obama Administration Is Cracking Down. by Danny Vinik: “For years, states have tried to crack down on these deceptive business practices. Now, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is giving it a shot. On Monday, the New York Times reported that the CFPB will soon issue the first draft of new regulations on the $46 billion payday-lending industry. The rules are being designed to ensure borrowers have a better understanding of the real cost of payday loans and to promote a transparent and fair short-term lending market.”

Why does this Buddhist-majority nation hate these Muslims so much? by Ishaan Tharoor: “The miserable condition of the Rohingya, a forgotten, stateless people, persists. The United Nations deems them “one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.” There are some 1.3 million Rohingya, the majority of whom live in Burma’s Rakhine state, on the western border with Bangladesh and India, and struggle to access basic state services. As WorldViews reported last year, around 140,000 Rohinigya eke out a squalid existence in ramshackle camps, displaced by ethnic and sectarian strife in 2013 and neglected by the Burmese government.”

Meet the New Cardinals: Interviews with Seventeen Leaders Chosen by Pope Francis by Jim McDermott: “Pope Francis continued to be the pope of surprises when his choices for cardinal-designates in January indicated a heightened attention to the church at the peripheries.”

ISIS releases video claiming beheadings of Egyptian Coptic Christians by CNN: “In a new propaganda video released Sunday by ISIS, the group claims to have beheaded over a dozen members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority on a Libyan beach.”

In Darfur, Mass Rape Within Minutes by Nina Strochlic: “Soldiers raped more than 200 women and children as violence in the stricken region escalates—again. But with journalists, humanitarians and U.N. officials expelled, who is watching anymore?”