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NPR's Robert Siegel talks to the sons of the late Frank Mankiewicz, Josh and Ben, about their father's posthumously published memoir, So As I Was Saying: My Somewhat Eventful Life.

California's Central Valley is facing a health crisis: its tap water is undrinkable. And when soda is cheaper than bottled water, many residents find themselves going down an unhealthy path.

One high school in East Oakland is tackling its own over-suspension problem through restorative justice.

In Oakland, an elementary school with mostly low-income Latino students is taking the notion of healthy eating pretty seriously. It has banned all junk food from the school campus.

A southern California father fights for mental health reform after trying in vain to get his schizophrenic son treatment.

"I will absolutely give my return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously," Donald Trump said this week.

Adam Cohen's new book tells the story of the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell. The ruling permitted the state of Virginia to sterilize an "imbecile" — a scientific term of the day.

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says the proposed U.N. Security Council resolution "is nearly unprecedented in many respects and the toughest ... in more than two decades."

But it's unclear whether the various sides agree to all the terms. Many rebels are skeptical that the truce will have any effect on Syria's raging 5-year-old war.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are both trying to explain their positions on the 1994 crime bill, a touchstone of the tough-on-crime attitudes that are blamed for the mass incarceration of people of color now.