| Readers write: Recalling great teachers Posted: 09 Mar 2019 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: Recalling great teachers]( "Readers write: Recalling great teachers") In regards to the Mix article "Illustrating gratitude on the page and in life" in the Dec. 31 & Jan. 7 issue: As a middle-schooler, I signed up for play production with a teacher named Ms. Thrasher. Ms. Thrasher knew how to love her students and mold them into the roles they would play. Ms. Thrasher spent many hours working with us on different scenarios.
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| Global Newsstand: Citizenship should be inclusive, not exclusive, even for ISIS members, and more Posted: 09 Mar 2019 03:00 AM PST ![Global Newsstand: Citizenship should be inclusive, not exclusive, even for ISIS members, and more]( "Global Newsstand: Citizenship should be inclusive, not exclusive, even for ISIS members, and more") "In 2016, British Prime Minister Theresa May derided cosmopolitan elite as 'citizens of nowhere,' " writes Huma Yusuf. "Her government is now taking this phrase too literally in its attempts to strip Shamima Begum – a teenaged UK citizen of Bangladeshi heritage who joined the militant Islamic State (IS) group – of her citizenship.... Rather than centre the notion of citizenship on equal access to rights, justice and resources, the revocation reframes citizenship along ethnic, racial, religious, ideological and linguistic lines.... The modern realities of regional groupings, trade zones and hyper-connectivity have led to the existence of supra-states that are making the vulnerability of citizenship almost universal.
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