—Ethnic cleansing? One take on Latino-on-black crime in L.A.

—USA Today hops on the mayoral control of education bandwagon in an exceptionally uncritical cover story. Azi Paybarah looks at the backlash against mayoral control in New York here, and Diane Ravitch sides with the critics here.

—An old Reagan hand thinks that class-action litigation is dragging down Wall Street. (hat-tip: Point of Law).

—Over at Room 8, Larry Littlefield makes a case for land near transit stations as the new beachfront property, and Ben Smith posts a work unfriendly video of a customer meltdown at the Kensington Post Office in Brooklyn, which just may be the worst government institution I've ever set foot in.