Due in part to cuts in natural gas supplies, Germany could be heading toward a severe recession and possibly even an economic crisis. Constanze Stelzenmüller writes that Russia is trying to get Germany to bend on energy consumption and explains how Berlin is responding to the situation.   

In a new working paper, Anton Korinek and Megan Juelfs analyze how to set up institutions that future-proof society for a scenario of ever-more-intelligent autonomous machines that substitute for human labor and drive down wages.