World / Crime & Legal Feb 26, 2016

Thai seafood put on notice as Obama bans imports of slave-made goods

Federal officials are preparing to enforce an 86-year-old ban on importing goods made by children or slaves under new provisions of a law signed by President Barack Obama. "This law slams shut an unconscionable and archaic loophole that forced America to accept products made by ...

Commentary / World Jun 10, 2014

Some companies still struggle with their dark WWII history

by Peter Gumbel

The amount of bookshelf space dedicated to the 12 years of Hitler's Third Reich often exceeds that of any other period in history, but the role and the complicity of companies in the atrocities committed by the Nazis continue to be shrouded in obscurity.

Commentary / Japan Nov 5, 2013

Tokyo and Seoul's dangerous stalemate

by Daniel Sneider

Japan-South Korea relations have sunk so low because of wartime history issues that the U.S. might no longer be given a free pass to use its bases in Japan to support South Korea in a war.

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