Reading Lounge

1. The Guardian view on a job guarantee: a policy whose time has come - all the while ze Germans prefer so stay mired in their Hartz 4/UBI (gasp) discussion

2. Is the Great Recession Still Holding Down Wages? (Wonkish)

3. The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

4. How Master Japanese Animator Satoshi Kon Pushed the Boundaries of Making Anime: A Video Essay

5. Two thirds of children don’t know what a floppy disk is