Foreign Policy
TOKYO - Every year for the past two decades, legions of young Americans have descended upon Japan to teach English.
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
July 5
New York Times on China, the sweatshop:
The labor strife spreading through China's factory cities has clearly frazzled the government.
KABUL - Small pockets of Taliban foot soldiers ready to switch sides are waiting for the Afghan government to roll out a nationwide program to lure them off the battlefield and make peace with their leaders.
CASPER, Wyo. - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of Wyoming must allow 1960s radical William Ayers to speak on the school's campus in Laramie.
PHILADELPHIA - A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group.
