Vaginal Politics Vaginal Politics
Imagine Madison Square Garden brimming over with 18,000 laughing and ebullient women of every size, shape, age and color, along with their male friends, ditto. Imagine that in th...
Feb 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
No Olive Branch No Olive Branch
How many times did we hear during the endless campaign that Bush wouldn't go after abortion if elected? Republicans, Naderites and countless know-it-alls and pundits in between a...
Feb 1, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Hello Larry, Thanks! John Hello Larry, Thanks! John
After a bruising fight fopr the presidency, George W. Bush is stocking his cabinet with figures from the far right, none more so than John Ashcroft.
Jan 18, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Happy New Year Happy New Year
A cold snowy start to the new year, the first day of the new millennium. Not the fun one with champagne at the Pyramids and the all-night, round-the-globe pseudoprofundities and ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
This Is Your Country on Drugs This Is Your Country on Drugs
Our drug laws, like those concerning voting, reveal bias and backward thinking.
Dec 14, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Down for the Count Down for the Count
Was it only a few short weeks ago that I turned on the TV in my hotel room to hear conservative commentator Tucker Carlson explain to Don Imus that Gore would win the Floridian c...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Antichoice Intimidation Antichoice Intimidation
While partisans debate whether a victorious George W. Bush would nominate Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v.
Nov 27, 2000 / Editorial / Katha Pollitt
Divorce, American Style Divorce, American Style
Divorce, American Style New York City In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, Judith Wallerstein argues that the consequences of parental divorce for children are...
Nov 16, 2000 / Letters / Katha Pollitt and Our Readers
Don’t Blame Ralph Don’t Blame Ralph
If Gore loses the White House--and some of you reading this will know whether or not he did--he'll have no one but himself to blame. Readers of this page know I've been something...
Nov 2, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What Do They Want? What Do They Want?
I keep reading that the election turns on women's votes. Yet apart from the issue of abortion, women seem curiously invisible this election season--except of course for the endle...
Oct 19, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt