Opinion – Page 671 – People's World

Payroll tax, jobs and Social Security

September 6, 2011 By Art Perlo

One part of the jobs program that President Obama will be presenting this week is an extension of the payroll tax reduction. Some activists and economists are opposing an extension, claiming that it will undermine Social...

The massacre at Ishaqi, Iraq

September 2, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

U.S. troops entered the house and killed the civilians before calling in the airstrikes. Autopsies showed all had been handcuffed and then shot.

The horror in Guatemala

September 2, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

We today should be as angry and indignant as if this had happened yesterday; if we are not, it could happen again.

Creationists, flat earthers and deficit hawks

September 2, 2011 By Dean Baker

It's worth asking how the proponents of deficit-reduction - be they congressional Republicans or "deficit hawks" within the Obama administration - think that lower deficits will lead to increased growth and job creation in an economy...

Drug industry sells misleading ads – to doctors

September 2, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

82 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.