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City University of New York
Professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Janet Gornick
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FROM Janet Gornick
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Obama Calls For Paid Family, Sick Leave In last night’s State of the Union Speech, President Obama called for state and federal legislation expanding paid sick and family leave for workers. Here in California, many of us already have those things. But what are the chances of national legislation? And what’s holding us back from it?
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Terrorism in London: Lessons for the US This weekend’s terrorist attack in London left seven people dead and almost 50 injured. London police fatally shot the attackers, and ISIS claimed responsibility.
UnFictional
The Other Man Stories of two men who meet by chance and emerge indelibly changed – or at least, one of them does.
Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."