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Congress boosted unemployment benefits. Now the challenge lies in getting them out to the unemployed, through underfunded state-level programs.

Just as in the Great Recession, a steep downturn in the private sector is poised to cause big job losses in state and local governments.

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his considerable skills to bear in this novel about a pandemic, written before our current crisis erupted.

Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis