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[Raphael Hadas-Lebel] France’s move to limit citizenship over terror

Since last November’s brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, a furious debate has been raging in France over whether to revoke the citizenship of those convicted …

Don’t shoot the messenger

The case of Bangladesh’s Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam becomes more and more curious. What began as theatre of the absurd is starting to look increasingly …

[Bernard-Henri Levy] The world according to the Trump phenomenon
[Bernard-Henri Levy] The world according to the Trump phenomenon

The word “trump,” according to the dictionary, is an alteration of the word triumph. And because Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential candidate, appears …

[Editorial] Losing its senses

Factional strife within political parties usually reaches its peak ahead of general elections as each faction strives to get as many nomination tickets as …

[Editorial] Kim‘s jitters

The U.S. navy’s nuclear-powered supercarrier USS John C. Stennis docked at Busan Port on Sunday in the latest reinforcement of U.S. military assets aimed at …

[Ingrid Newkirk] Why this feminist would ‘rather go naked’

Is it odd that a feminist like me, from back in the bra-burning ’60s, champions racy protests featuring women wearing little more than body-paint markings …

[David Ignatius] Syria diplomacy’s biggest surprise 
[David Ignatius] Syria diplomacy’s biggest surprise 

The head of the Syrian opposition says he’s going to Geneva for the next round of U.S.-Russian-sponsored peace talks Monday, even though the opposition …

[Editorial] Lee Se-dol evolves via AI

Champion Lee Se-dol finally beat AlphaGo in the fourth Go match on Sunday after losing ground to Google’s artificial intelligence program in the previous …

[Editorial] General elections close in

The nation’s general election will be held in a month. A total of 300 seats will be filled with lawmakers selected from 253 local constituencies and 47 …

[Noah Smith] Picking up where Abenomics left off

If there’s one country that needs creative economic policy solutions, it’s Japan. With many observers saying Abenomics has stalled after a year of weak …

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