15,000 to converge on Cochabamba, Bolivia this week for people’s climate summit.

It’s birther for Joe.

Paul Krugman on the effects of the recession on social mobility via transfers from community colleges to state universities.

Josh Keller on the sudden closure of California’s social mobility route from two-year community colleges to baccalaureate programs at state universities.

Connor Dougherty on rising poverty across the U.S. Looks at Census Bureau data.

J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian (1999), on WESU. Deloria discusses Playing Indian, his vision of cultural change, and his father Vine Deloria, Jr.’s intellectual career, sparked by the writing of Custer Died for Your Sins (1969).