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Katha Pollitt

Ground Zero for Free Speech (Conservatives and the American Right, Separation of Church and State, The Constitution)

The proposed cultural center in lower Manhattan has become the latest target of the right's all-out attack on the First Amendment.

Katha Pollitt
Grisly Mamas (Gender and Sexuality, Conservatives and the American Right)

Conservative housewives have the same desire for power and respect that liberal women do. No wonder women comprise half of the Tea Party movement.

Katha Pollitt
Women on Top? (Gender and Sexuality)

Is our society on the verge of becoming a matriarchy? In your dreams.

Katha Pollitt
Abraham Lincoln, Meet Client #9 (Social Justice, Economic Policy)

Americans sacrifice to pay for a militarized, increasingly unequal society. Is it any wonder that people respond to calls for selflessness with defensiveness and cynicism?

Katha Pollitt
Veil of Fears (Religion)

I don't like face-veiling either. But how does criminalizing Muslim women's clothing make them more equal?

Katha Pollitt
What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers? (Class, Gender Issues, Media)

If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?

Katha Pollitt
Let Us (Not) Pray (Religion)

For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."

Katha Pollitt
Letter From Berlin (Foreign Affairs, Regions and Countries)

Germany has problems--but on healthcare and gun control, it's way ahead of the States.

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Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the...

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