Politics – Page 808 – People's World

Author traces rise of corporate rights above those of citizens

March 12, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

U.S. corporations now have equal – or, it seems, more – constitutional rights than U.S. citizens.

Maine campaign against war and corporate rule nears climax

March 12, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Maine legislators have a hot potato in their hands, but they don’t seem to be feeling any pain.

Virginia legislature wages battle for Medicaid expansion

March 9, 2018 By Emile Schepers

In some Republican-held districts, poor working class people, including whites who voted for Trump in 2016, are in severe trouble over the issue of health care costs. So supporters of Medicaid expansion have seen a chance...

Senate on verge of capitulating to bankster lobby

March 8, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“Too many senators seem willing to ignore the lessons of the financial crisis, and what happens when we let big banks write the rules of the economy."

Frances Perkins: The woman who helped end the Great Depression

March 8, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson

On International Women's Day, we remember Frances Perkins - advocate for working people and the architect of much of FDR's New Deal.