Letter fromt the editor.

Our cover story looks at the breakdown of the system of justice across much of Africa, where prisoners can wait years for their trials, while being held in horrible conditions.

In two other stories, we see how events abroad reverberate at home. At a number of U.S. colleges, students are debating whether campus newspapers should publish the controversial Danish cartoons satirizing Muhammad. And in the virtual world, Google and other technology companies are coming under fire for helping China police the Internet.

In Times Past, we revisit one of the most important First Amendment cases in our nation's history: the Pentagon Papers, first published 35 years ago this June.