Subject to Debate

Katha Pollitt

In Its Crusade Against Choice, Has the GOP Gone Too Far? (Reproductive Rights, Conservatives and the American Right)

Not content with depriving women of reproductive healthcare, House Republicans want to starve them and their children too.

Katha Pollitt

It Takes a Village, Not a Tiger (Education, Health, Youth, Poverty)

Whether you're a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent or something else, if you're not in poverty, then your kids will probably end up okay.

Katha Pollitt

Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Horror Show (Healthcare Policy, Reproductive Rights)

This is what illegal abortion looks like.

Katha Pollitt

Jared Loughner's Glock: Weapon of Mass Destruction (Guns and Gun Control)

Has it really come to this: an uphill battle to ban a gun that has no purpose except to kill thirty-three people before anyone can stop you?

Katha Pollitt

The Case of Julian Assange (Gender and Sexuality, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

The response to the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder prove that when it comes to rape, the left still doesn't get it.

Katha Pollitt

Spread the Joy (Activism)

Time again for the holiday gift guide.

Katha Pollitt

On Condoms, Hope From the Pope (Religion, Reproductive Rights, Sex and Sexuality)

The pope has said both men and women can use condoms to protect themselves from HIV. Can he now say that women can use them to protect themselves from the dangers of pregnancy?

Katha Pollitt

Antichoicers on the March (Gender and Sexuality, Reproductive Rights)

Conservatives don't really want to get rid of abortion rights? This next Congress, we might just find out.

Katha Pollitt