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Unjust Guatemalan labor court rulings targeting U.S. investors jeopardize regional trade stability and American national security.

FCC threats against broadcast licenses echo FDR-era regulatory coercion, forcing private TV networks into political compliance.

'If low approval proves an institution is broken, [Sen. Adam] Schiff should begin with Congress: A recent Gallup survey found that 86% of Americans disapproved of the way it was handling its job,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

The level of accommodation now provided by the Church of Rome for communist China would have been thinkable in the recent past ("China's abandoned Catholics," Web, Aug. 11).

'The smart and honorable thing would have been to leave the plane secretly and fly off, while simultaneously having everyone else disembark from Air Force One so it would be clear he was no longer present,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Western blind spots allow Iran to expand Shiite radicalism in America under the guise of protected religious tradition and ritual.

Depleted Western missile stockpiles are fusing regional conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, and Taiwan into a single global World War III.

Iran's regime and monarchists share a main threat: an organized democratic movement capable of ending authoritarian rule in the Islamic Republic.