My end-of-Summer morning round up:

• Do you spend money more like a millennial or a boomer? Take this quiz to find out. Are you pouring money into day care, car loans or a luxury vacation? Your spending says a lot about your income bracket and whether you have kids. But there are also generational influences — and a growing gap between how older and younger generations spend money. (Washington Post)

• How America Can Break Its Highway Addiction: In the 1980s, an unlikely alliance slowed the construction of nature-destroying dams. We just might be able to pull it off again. (Slate)

• As a young Afghan interpreter, he helped a US officer. Then he needed help getting out: Karimi, a former U.S. military interpreter – like thousands of other Afghan allies vulnerable to Taliban reprisal – had been left behind. Instead, he and his family had made it as far

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