The Atlantic (March 10)
“Russia’s economic blackout will change the world. Like all novel experiments, the group punishment of Russia is a leap into the unknown.” In mere days, “the United States, Europe, and others have excommunicated Russia from the world stage, isolating the 11th-largest economy financially, commercially, and culturally.” The measures are largely unprecedented and, taken collectively, “amount to a radical worldwide experiment in moral retribution.”
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The Economist (June 4)
Swiss voters will go to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to adopt a basic income for all citizens. Smaller experiments are underway in Finland and the Netherlands, but fundamentally “basic income is an answer to a problem that has not yet materialized…. A universal basic income might just make sense in a world of technological upheaval. But before governments begin planning for a world without work, they should strive to make today’s system function better.
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