National – Page 398 – People's World

Maryland abolishes death penalty

May 9, 2013 By Les Bayless

One fallacy of the death penalty, opponents say, is the chance for fatal error.

Professor Falk stirs a firestorm

May 8, 2013 By Sam Webb

It doesn't take much to agitate the defenders of the official orthodoxy.

Quakers unite, and inspire, on gun violence

May 8, 2013 By John Case

The Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, have an expression called "holding in the light..."

East Coast to be overrun by billions of cicadas

May 8, 2013 By Seth Borenstein

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast.

The future of immigration reform

May 2, 2013 By Emile Schepers

If people can't come across the Southern border, they will come down through Canada or as increasingly the case, by sea, to the Gulf or West coasts of the U.S.