Author Talk: Maya L. Kornberg — Stuck- with Angela Greiling Keane

Author Maya L. Kornberg discusses their book "Stuck" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress--and what that reveals about American democracy.

Congress, the central democratic institution in the United States, is hanging on by a thread. On January 6, 2021, a violent attack on the Capitol Building left five people dead, and threats and attacks against politicians are on the rise. In Stuck, Maya Kornberg chronicles the efforts of congressional reformers over the last fifty years and documents the mounting forces that have kept their reforms from creating meaningful change.

Maya L. Kornberg is a senior research fellow at NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice and the author of Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in Lawmaking.

Kornberg is in conversation with Angela Greiling Keane, CNBC's senior editor for politics. She’s covered the intersection of politics, business and policy for more than 25 years and is based in Washington. She’s previously been a senior newsroom leader at Bloomberg and Politico, and she earned a bachelor’s in journalism at the University of Missouri. She has served as president of the National Press Club, National Press Club Journalism Institute and Journalism & Women Symposium.

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