Prairie Grass Roots Prairie Grass Roots
In South Dakota, prochoicers are fighting back with a bipartisan initiative challenging the abortion ban and a grassroots effort that has put progressive Native American women on t...
Jun 15, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Go Christine! Go Christine!
I was never wild about the Band of Brothers idea, as Ari notes, and not just because it is such a male (and white) bunch of tired and dreary no-idea candidates. It's a gimmick. A m...
Feb 22, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Iranian Teenager to Hang for Self-Defense Iranian Teenager to Hang for Self-Defense
Just relax and take it if a rapist attacks you in Iran. If you fight back, you may find yourself sentenced to death, like 18-year-old Nazanin. Oh, but wait, I forgot, if you do get...
Feb 16, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Accidents Will Happen Accidents Will Happen
This morning the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas is pregnant--mazel tov! Before everyone piles on about what this means for wor...
Feb 15, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
V-Day or P-Day? V-Day or P-Day?
Today is Valentine's Day, which on campus means V-Day--over 1,000 productions of The Vagina Monologues will be taking place across the nation to raise funds for battered women's sh...
Feb 14, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Band of Brothers–Brother! Band of Brothers–Brother!
Following up on Ari's post about the Band of Brothers, those military veterans running for Congress as Democrats. The theory is that as former soldiers they will be immunized ag...
Feb 10, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
About that Ban on Drawing Muhammad… About that Ban on Drawing Muhammad…
Most comments about the Danish cartoons of Muhammad assert that Muslims believe it is completely taboo to depict him, period. But is the ban on depicting the prophet really so seve…
Feb 9, 2006 / Katha Pollitt
Betty Friedan, 1921-2006 Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
Betty Friedan lived a big life and wrote a big book that helped change our world, in every way, for the better.
Feb 9, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Prochoice Puritans Prochoice Puritans
As prochoicers seek to reframe their arguments, injecting more moralism into the antiabortion debate will not keep abortion legal and accessible.
Jan 26, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Girls Against Boys? Girls Against Boys?
Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some conservatives envision.
Jan 12, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt