Readers know I've been a bit obsessed with paid leave and vacation time lately. But it's looking like I may not be alone. The New Republic has an editorial this week lamenting the "backwardness of the American approach to vacation" and wishing that the U.S government would "[wise] up and [require] private employers to offer paid leave on par with other advanced nations." And in the New York Times Magazine, the wonderful Eyal Press has a searing examination of the need for paid family leave.