‘On the stage, people. Come along.’ Thus speaks a character in Mariana, by Monica Dickens. At first glance ‘people’ here appears to be a neutral word, a simile for everyone, but it hints at inclusion in a special group, rather...

The term ‘people’ is used throughout the adult education world in the same way as folk or popular or adult, so that there are People’s Colleges, People’s Educational Associations, People’s Institutes, People’s...

Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people. (Roman) Sometimes the common people see what is right, at other times they err....

People denotes a group of humans, either with unspecified traits, or specific characteristics (e.g. the people of Spain or the people of the Plains). The term people is often used in English as the suppletive plural of person. However, the word persons...

In Washington for the past year, the will of the people has been ignored. It has not been ignored because Congress is taking action against the president on a great moral issue in which the public has no interest. The will of the people...

Despite the spirited rallying by a crowd of several hundred people to protest what they say are unfair attacks on District Mayor Marion Barry, a deep discomfort over the scandal continues to grip this city. Last week's sentencing of Alphonse G. Hill and...