Global Shutdown Showdown: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Off-Switch
Shutdown: The World’s Favorite New Pastime By Our Correspondent, presently not shut down (give it time) PARIS—Another week, another capital city flicking the off-switch like a toddler who’s discovered the light button. From Washington’s debt-ceiling death spiral to Berlin’s overnight techno-curfew, “shutdown” has become the global lingua franca, a polite euphemism for “we’ve stopped pretending…