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 / 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 / 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
Social Pseudoscience Social Pseudoscience
Every five years the psychologist Judith Wallerstein updates her ongoing study of 131 children whose parents were going through divorce in Marin County, California, in 1971, an...
Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d. Presidential Politics, Cont’d., Cont’d.
I still think third-party politics is mostly a crock, but then, so is two-party politics.
Sep 24, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Freedom From Religion, ¡Si! Freedom From Religion, ¡Si!
"The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion," Senator Joseph Lieberman told a rapturous audience at a black church a few Sundays ago, just after...
Sep 7, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Moral Property of Women The Moral Property of Women
Since 1988, when it became available in France, American women have been waiting for mifepristone.
Jun 22, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt