Opinion – Page 784 – People's World

Women and the U.S. Constitution: a call to action

January 7, 2011 By Riane Eisler And Kimberly Otis

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia just asserted for a second time that our Constitution does not protect women against discrimination, a good reason why America needs the Equal Rights Amendment.

Lincoln’s fiery trial was America’s too

January 6, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Book review: Eric Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery."

Poem of the week: Emily Dickinson and the Republicans

January 6, 2011 By John Case

The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives can be viewed, almost poignantly, as a death in the neighborhood, and Emily Dickinson provides a commentary.

Pete Postlethwaite gave us the great “Brassed Off”

January 5, 2011 By Bill Meyer

The great British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died of cancer Jan. 2 at 64, starred in one of the most progressive films that came out of England in the 1990s.

Public workers in the bull’s-eye

January 5, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Taking advantage of the economic crisis, the Republicans and Wall Street have placed public workers in the bull's-eye of their attack.