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The dramatic shifts in the election cycle are becoming increasingly common. The recent outcomes in Ohio and Mississippi suggest the electorate isn't completely in line with a party claiming an ideological mandate.

"If we want to make media better then we've got to start consuming better media," says open-source-Internet activist Clay Johnson. His new book, The Information Diet, makes the case for more "conscious consumption" of news and information.

High oil and gas prices are emerging as a big issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. Oil market analysts say recent price hikes have more to do with turmoil in the Middle East than with administration policies. Still, potential Republican candidates are trying to draw a direct line between high gas prices and President Obama.

High oil and gas prices are emerging as a big issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. Oil market analysts say recent price hikes have more to do with turmoil in the Middle East than with administration policies. Still, potential Republican candidates are trying to draw a direct line between high gas prices and President Obama.

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After more than three decades, China announced it will ease its one child policy. For more on how the change affects families and the economy, host Michel Martin speaks with writer Jiayang Fan, dad David Youtz and Howard University professor Meirong Liu.

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Growing up near Atlanta, Karin Slaughter learned that tragic crimes can happen to anyone — even children. She says she sets her crime fiction in Atlanta as a way to honor the city's people and turning points, from the election of its first black mayor to the 1996 Olympics.

The grand cinematic return of Stuart Staples' band of chamber-goth romantics, includes a duet with the late Lhasa de Sela.

Physician Kevin Patterson has treated patients in the Arctic, in Kandahar and on remote Pacific Islands. He says that Western ideas and the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker.

Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas are set to carry out the first stage of a prisoner exchange Tuesday, with nearly 500 Palestinian prisoners and one Israeli soldier being freed. Most Israelis support the move, but some say it will only lead to more attacks.

Several European governments have already fallen or been replaced as part of the fallout from the euro crisis. Even if Greece's prime minister survives a test vote Friday, leaders of several other countries remain at risk.