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France's Controversial Pension Reform Moves Ahead
After a surviving two no-confidence vote against French President Emmanuel Macron’s government, Roger Cohen, Paris bureau chief for The New York Times and author of several books, most recently, An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics (Knopf, 2023), discusses what's next for France's pension reform which would raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64 for most workers.