switzerland
Universal Basic Income had it's first electoral test earlier this week, when Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected the idea. Now, I don't want to read too much into this, for several.
Shame on Denmark: The UN Refugee Agency is condemning a Danish plan to seize cash and valuables from would-be-refugees crossing the border, calling it "an affront to human dignity." On.
I think the ban on the hijab in public schools and other public places in France and elsewhere is deeply misguided at best, thinly veiled racism at (much more likely) worst, but at least in that case, I understood the plausible rationale behind the policy....
Yglesias responds, conceding that the Swiss analogy doesn't really work "except in the broad sense that Switzerland is the other example of a developed country that came late to the.
I'm sure that folks have already seen this:Farhan Haq told the Swiss News Agency that Libya had submitted the proposal for discussion by the General Assembly. It was thrown out.
This is such an interesting article;I don't know quite what to think of it. The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had...