James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has written on such subjects as the Time Warner–A.O.L. merger, the post-prison S.E.C. investigation of Michael Milken, Disney, the Clintons, and Steinway.

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Articles by James B. Stewart

2016-06-25

Britain’s Dreams of a ‘Swiss Miracle’ Look More Like Fantasy

To help explain why the British voted to leave the European Union, look to Switzerland.
The famously neutral Swiss rejected membership in the European Economic Area, a potential steppingstone to the European Union, in a 1992 referendum, but Switzerland didn’t formally withdraw its dormant application until last week, when the Swiss Parliament decided to terminate it.

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