What My Grandmother's Bakery Taught Me About Inflation
She raised her prices once a decade and apologized every time. Her successors raise them every quarter and do not.
Opinion
11 articles
The Sleeper Train Is Not Nostalgia. It Is Infrastructure.
Governments subsidize airports without blinking. They should think the same way about beds on rails.
Europe Cannot Outsource Its Own Deterrence
The procurement deal is welcome. It is also twenty years late.
Argentina Is Running a Test That Nobody Wants to Grade
Inflation is down. So is everything else. Both sides of the argument are reading the same numbers.
The Four-Day Week Is Not the Productivity Fix It Claims to Be
The trials that made headlines were small, self-selected and short. The long-run evidence is thinner than its advocates admit.
Noise Is the Pollution Europe Refuses to Hear
It causes 12,000 premature deaths a year on the Continent and disturbs the sleep of 20 million people. The fixes are cheap. The will is missing.
I Have Worked Nights in a Hospital for 20 Years. The Night Shift Is Breaking Us.
Europe is short about 1.2 million nurses. The way we staff the hours between midnight and 6 a.m. is a large part of why.
This Is the Last Time Europe Should Change Its Clocks
The Parliament voted to end the twice-yearly switch seven years ago. The only thing stopping it is a disagreement about which time to keep. Pick one.
Let the Trams Be Slow
Not every public service needs to be optimized. Some of them need to be kept.
Europe Knows How to Stop Litter. It Should Do More of It.
Deposit-return systems collect more than 90 percent of bottles where they exist. The E.U. should stop treating them as a national option.
Stop Treating A.I. Regulation as a Race
Being first to write the rules is only an advantage if the rules are good.