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Liane talks with Mark Frost about his latest novel, The 6 essiahs, which continues the fictitious adventures of 19th-century author rthur Conan Doyle. (William Morrow)

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed his sweeping $1.1 billion emergency drought relief bill Friday. It funds water infrastructure improvements like flood control and aid for farmworkers.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $150 million in grants to train K-12 teachers in civics education, but what does nonpartisan civics look like in these hyper-partisan times?

Last year a Black-owned Texas brewery asked the craft industry to take their beer, Black is Beautiful, and use the proceeds to support equality, inclusion and social justice reform. It worked.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with the president of the United Nations Association of the USA, William Luers, about the United States' loss of its seat on the U.N.'s Commission for Human Rights. The U.N. Economic and Social Council voted yesterday not to re-elect the U.S. to the commission. This is the first time since the commission's creation in 1947 that the U.S. has not held a position on it.

Host Liane Hansen continues her onversation with Sadako Ogata (sah-DA-koh oh-GAH-tah), the United Nations High ommissioner for Refugees. This week they focus their discussion on the recent eturn of more than 1,000 Rwandan refugees. They also consider other current esponsibilites of the UNHCR, which provides assistance for the world's 27 illion refugees.

With many member nations flouting rules and weakening their support, is the organization now at one of its most vulnerable moments?

Melissa Block talks with Shashi Tharoor, United Nations under-secretary general, about Tuesday's bomb blast in Baghdad that killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N. special representative to Iraq.

The United Nations wants to dissolve the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council in favor of a transitional government chosen by the U.N. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, Iraqi-American lawyer Faisal Istrabadi -- who helped draft Iraq's interim constitution -- and Hamid Dabashi, chairman of Columbia University's Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports on the struggle at the United Nations over the selection of a new Secretary General. The United States has blocked the re-election of current Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, but so far the five permanent members of the U-N Security Council have been unable to agree on a candidate to replace him. There are four candidates from Africa right now, but the US, France and Britain are reportedly using their veto power as permanent Council members to block one or more of the candidates.