Senators are going home for August, after they voted for another $2 billion to the "Cash for Clunkers" program and approved Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Still on the to do list: health care. We speak with Gail Chaddock, congressional correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

Ebony and Jet are struggling and a longtime African-American paper in Boston is in financial trouble. We'll speak with Kai Wright, senior writer for TheRoot.com, and Christopher Smith, communications professor at the University of Southern California.

The Secretary of State is in South Africa today and she called on the government to press neighboring Zimbabwe for reforms. Right now there are 3-million refugees from Zimbabwe in South Africa and Clinton said every one of them represents a crisis for South Africa. We speak to the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg.

Our listeners weigh in... including Matthew Temple of Nashville, Tennessee, who composed the song "So Many Young Men," about soldiers killed in war.

The new film stars Meryl Streep as food icon Julia Child, and Amy Adams as Julie Powell, who decides to make all the recipes in Child's book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr and our resident chef Kathy Gunst join us.