The political campaigns may have become a cartoon, but real issues are still exploding in the streets.
This past week, ICE sent agents to elementary schools in Oakland, shocking and scaring students, parents, teachers, and city officials. Parents reported that the agents intimidated students by patrolling outside the school after being denied entry at Stonehurst Elementary. ICE followed up with arrests of parents at their homes in Oakland and Berkeley.  Read More...

 NPR has launched a new show, The Takeaway, hosted by Adaora Udoji and John Hockenberry that's a Morning Edition and BBC News hybrid.  It has a faster pace than most NPR news programs and tackles a pressing issue of the day without getting bogged down.  I've only listened once, but I could see it becoming a part of my media diet. 

WRGradio's Afrobot offers a review of the documentary unnatural causes on his blog:

This documentary draws attention to a fascinating area of public health research that charts the correlations among socio-economics, race and health. One study of thousands of British civil servants showed that the lower on the hierarchy a worker was positioned, the worse their health was.  Read More...

Finally, over at the Huffington Post, yours truly weighs in with a response to Clinton and McCain's gas tax holiday proposal.