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Shamima Begum was born in the United Kingdom. She was a British citizen. That fact ought to have been the beginning and the end of the matter in any country that takes citizenship seriously. Britain, alas, decided to innovate. Ms Begum’s parents were of Bangladeshi origin. Bangladesh’s constitution provides for citizenship by descent. From this …
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Political history is often shaped not by titans of ideology, but by opportunists waiting in the wings for their moment. Nigel Farage is the starkest British example of this in a generation. To understand the self-inflicted wound of Brexit, one must first look past the bombastic rhetoric of the “Brexit election” and trace the infection …
Democracy, like a roller coaster, is thrilling — until you realize the engineer fell asleep at the controls. The forthcoming U.S. midterm election offers Americans one of those rare moments when they can collectively pull the emergency brake before the ride goes off the rails.For the past few years, the United States has been sprinting …
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What do you complain about the most? It is often easy to brush off bad service, but if you are looking to improve service, perhaps do it for the benefit of others and with the hope of making things better for everyone.
Apple did not invent the smartphone. Nor the personal computer. Not even the graphical user interface. What Apple perfected was something far more consequential: the art of taking what already existed, stripping it of unnecessary clutter, polishing the edges, and presenting it as inevitable. The result was not innovation ex nihilo, but execution with confidence. …
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