The Unorthodox Solution to the World’s Migration Woes
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Question of the Week
If you could change one thing about the culture of your country, as if by magic, by adopting a practice or attitude or folkway or tradition from another country, what would you import and why?
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Conversations of Note
As a coda to our recent , which focused on policies in the United States, I’ve been thinking about how the world might collectively address the issue. Economic migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees will be with us for the foreseeable future, and their numbers may rise with climate change. Already, there are far more people leaving home for their own safety, or to seek a better life, than there are spots in wealthy countries willing to accept them. Even if the United States significantly increased the number of newcomers that it welcomes, an ongoing crisis would persist; lots of European countries, meanwhile,
