Opinion – Page 598 – People's World

Pennsylvania politics continues to trump health and environment

July 5, 2012 By Walter Brasch

The latest is how Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the wealthiest and more high-tech/industrial areas of the state from the rural areas.

Today in history: Voting age lowered to 18

July 5, 2012 By Special to People’s World

President Richard Nixon, under popular pressure, formally certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Capitalism is an irrational system

July 5, 2012 By Sam Webb

What explains this attachment to policies that leave the U.S. and Europe in stagnation and could well throw the world into a deep depression?

Immigration nation

July 3, 2012 By PW Editorial

Who could be more anti-American than those who seek to keep undocumented immigrants away from the fruits of equality fought for by generations of Americans?

Blood and citizenship: Black soldiers and the 4th of July

July 3, 2012 By J. Behrens

As we celebrate Independence Day, it is worth remembering how important documents are to us - and where the authority for those documents comes from.