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Beyond the Border Line

The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
by Tyche Hendricks

Reviewed by Erica E Phillips

Beyond its physical demarcation, the border between the United States and Mexico is, …

Monica Ganas on the Meaning of California

Before Monica Ganas began teaching California, she lived it. A native of the state and a 30 year veteran of the entertainment industry and now a professor at Azusa Pacific …

Lucien Wulsin

Lucien Wulsin is the project director of Insure the Uninsured Project and is working on approaches to expand coverage for uninsured working Californians. He is the author of “California at …

Charles Bukowski Finds Home

Charles Bukowski lived and wrote all over Los Angeles. He devoted a short piece, a June 1974 installment of his “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” column in the L.A. …

How Can We Repair California?

Joe Mathews, a fourth-generation Californian and frequent Zócalo moderator, joined forces with his fellow New America Foundation scholar Mark Paul to write California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State …