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Monday, May 10. I’m Kimi Yoshino, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is on the short list for a post in the Biden administration as the U.S. ambassador to India, and questions are swirling about what might happen next. As Times reporters David Zahniser and Dakota Smith noted, “At Los Angeles City Hall, everything is suddenly up in the air.” A mayoral election is already on tap for next year, but if Garcetti were selected for a new job, it would be up to the City ...

Print A century from now, someone who has not yet been born will come to a haunting realization: Their life was shaped, in ways they may never fully understand, by the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. I know this, because it’s the story of my family. It’s a story with unfathomable twists and turns, great pathos and heroism (not mine). It ends, like so many pandemic stories, with both heartache and humanity. And I have no doubt that versions of this mystery story exist in other families, though it...

Print Each day Lois Jones walks past 119 strangers who died last year of COVID-19. Their photos cover the front page of a newspaper that has been Scotch-taped to the glass door of a curio cabinet in her entry hall. Its shelves lined with miniature ceramic pianos, the piece of furniture holds a place of honor in her home. A wave of sadness flows through her with each encounter, which takes place whenever she goes from her bedroom to her kitchen, to her living room or piano studio, and as uncomfo...

Counting the lives lost to COVID-19, not by the numbers Nita Lelyveld © (Gregory Bull/Associated Press) A couple walks among graves at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on Veterans Day in San Diego. In California, deaths from COVID-19 have recently passed 25,000. (Gregory Bull / Associated Press) Ive never been much of a numbers person. When they get too big, they blur. Ive stopped relying on them to process our coronavirus losses. Each time I try to wrap my head around them, ...