The rocket attacks and death toll continue to rise in the Middle East. As The Atlantic’s Jeff Moskowitz explains, young people are at the center of this conflict. “Perhaps the most dangerous outcome is that many on both sides could go their entire lives without saying a word to one another.”

+ The Economist: From two wrongs, ruin.

+ Around the world, there are fewer wars, but still a lot less peace. And it’s costing all of us, in many ways.