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" Mitt Romney will LOSE this election," says CNN.... We worked hard for this moment. Now, let's make it worthwhile. Agenda #1:  This is not a post-racial era. This is a highly racist era. It's time to deal with it. Agenda #2:  Education is not a business, and teachers are not mid-level managers.  Treat them like their partners in raising the nation's children. They deserve it. Agenda #3:  Families can't succeed if they can't work. Raise taxes dramatically on the Romneys of the world and provide tax breaks only if they create significant numbers of good jobs paying living wages to Americans. Agenda #4: End housing segregation, now. Poverty isn't quite so detrimental when it isn't concentrated. Agenda #5: Make college affordable by recognizing our democracy's need for postsecondary education. Two quality years for free-- minimum. Now. That's just a start.  ON.

Today's New York Times features an article on a new study on residential segregation by Edward Glaeser of Harvard, and Jacob Vigdor of Duke University.  I'd like to draw your attention to what the study actually finds, and how it's being pitched to the national audience. The study is produced by the Manhattan Institute' s  Center for State and Local Leadership. The Institute is widely recognized as a conservative research organization.  The title of the report, as written by its authors, reads: " The End of the Segregated Century." The NYT's headline reads: "Segregation Curtailed in U.S. Cities, Study Finds." The NYT's tweet reads: "Nation's Cities Almost Free of Segregation" So it seems, the study must tell us that segregation has ended, or is about to-- right? Nope.  What it tells us, points out Doug Massey of Princeton University , a nationally recognized expert on the topic, is that segregation has declined substantially i...