Last Column About Sarah Palin–Ever Last Column About Sarah Palin–Ever
We can't stop looking at our first female political train wreck.
Nov 24, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Whose Team Is It, Anyway? Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.
Nov 11, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Working Women: Strength in Numbers Working Women: Strength in Numbers
First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.
Oct 28, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED
The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggli...
Oct 21, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge Facebookers, Unite! Help MADRE Win the Causes Challenge
MADRE, the women's rights organization, has joined a contest to raise funds for its work protecting women's rights workers in Afghanistan, where as I'm sure you know many have be...
Oct 15, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry German Party Politics: Color Them Blurry
Leftist parties in Germany offer a range of choices but no cohesive challenge to the right.
Oct 14, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Berlin Postcard Berlin Postcard
Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990.
Oct 10, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him aget-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famousdirector, a lot of famous and gifted peop...
Oct 1, 2009 / Katha Pollitt
Kristof’s Challenge Kristof’s Challenge
If women's equality is the cause of our time, we'll get further by acknowledging it's a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.
Sep 16, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt