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New Stimulus Checks from Governor Newsom On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled huis $100 billion "California Comeback" recovery plan. This includes $5 billion towards rental relief and $600 stimulus checks going out to nearly two thirds of all Californians.  Guest: Ask An Expert: New Mask Guidelines, Kids Vaccines, and Incentivizing the Shot Things are opening back all over Los Angeles County yet the virus is still out there. This weekend, after a drastic decline, COVID-19 cases and deaths tic...

PhotoQuestGetty Images One of the best programs coming out of the New Deal was the Federal Writers Project, which became famous for producing "guidebooks" to the different parts of the country. As the Columbia Journalism Reviewexplains, even with more than a little exceptionalist jingo to its work, the FWP produced reporting that filled in enormous gaps in the countrys understanding of itself, including interviews with still-living people who were once enslaved. The guidebooks weren’t the e...

The enduring lessons of a New Deal writers project In 1937, Sterling A. Brown, a poet and literature professor at Howard University, published a forthright essay charting the history of Black life in his hometown of Washington, DC—from the district’s early status as the “very seat and center” of the domestic slave trade through the present-day effects of disenfranchisement and segregation. “In this border city, southern in so many respects, there is a denial of democracy, at times hyp...

Arbor, Mich.—We’re at a historical pause far deeper than the interregnum between Trump and Biden. Amid planetary warming, the pandemic has forced us to slow down if not to stop in our tracks. Locked in, I read a lot. So when JoAnn Wypijewski, author of a terrific new book about gender, sex, and silences, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo, asked for a dispatch on the pandemic and Michigan from my experience this year, it was books I had to write about. First, about p...