Thousands of emails - reportedly from the personal account of leader Bashar Al Assad - have been leaked to London-based newspaper The Guardian. Madeleine Brand talks to Tony Koran, senior editor at TIME magazine, about what the emails reveal.
Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics says a lot of the day-to-day GOP election news is just noise. He believes that five demographics — Latinos, Blacks, college students, evangelicals, and Mormons — are the key to predicting which candidate will pull in the most votes in an area, and he has a mathematical model to prove it.
| Michael Montgomery, The California Report | The Madeleine Brand Show
Since last fall hundreds of medical marijuana operators have gone out of business amid a statewide crackdown by federal prosecutors. In many cases the feds have not gone after the operators themselves, but property owners leasing space to them.
Writer Roland Kelts spends most of his time in Japan, and he's been observing the changes since the tsunami. Kelts gives us an update on the recovery efforts.
