Subject to Debate

Katha Pollitt

Do You Feel a Draft? (Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, Poverty, US Military)

The main effect of bringing back the draft would be to further militarize the nation.

Show & Tell in Abu Ghraib (Law, Society)

What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of
grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib
prison?

Katha Pollitt

Down and Out in Texas (Gender Issues, Social Justice, Reproductive Rights, States, Politics, Society)

Did you know that since January 1, women in Texas have not been able to
obtain abortions from the sixteenth week of pregnancy on?

Katha Pollitt

Pregnant and Dangerous (Gender Issues, Social Justice, Reproductive Rights, Conservatives and the American Right, Politics, Society)

The good news is that Utah has dropped murder charges against Melissa Rowland, who rejected her doctors' advice to undergo an immediate Caesarean section and gave birth to a stillborn boy and a g

Katha Pollitt

Pull Over, NASCAR Dads (Gender Issues, Parties, Politics, Society)

Single women under 65--those separated, widowed, divorced or never married--represent at least 24 percent of the voting-age population and a whopping 46 percent of voting-age women.

Katha Pollitt

The Protocols of Mel Gibson (Racism and Discrimination, Religion, Film, Society)

My friends had one question for me after I saw Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: Is it anti-Semitic?

Katha Pollitt

Toothpaste, Cough Drops, Aspirin, Contraception (Health and Disease, Reproductive Rights, Conservatives and the American Right, Regulations, Politics, Society)

Please forward widely: "An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception," by Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner

Katha Pollitt

Kristof to the Rescue? (Corporate Media and Consolidation, Gender Issues, Regions and Countries, Society)

This morning I got an e-mail from Feminist Majority asking me to e-mail the President protesting the Iraqi Governing Council's approval of Resolution 137, which would abolish current family law a

Katha Pollitt