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Childcare Scare Childcare Scare

Studies on the effects of childcare on the young are colored by researchers' views about educated women who go to work.

Apr 26, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Analyze This Analyze This

This is not going to be a column blaming Ralph Nader and the Greens for the daily disasters of the Bush Administration, so don't stop reading--yet. That column has been written d...

Apr 12, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health

A woman two months pregnant goes to see her Ob-Gyn for prenatal care. As required by law, her doctor informs her that her condition places her at greater risk for a wide range of...

Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives

Honored Infidel,       In the near future we plan to expand our faith-based initiative, Holy Terror Sandblasting and Demolition Corp. New York Ci...

Mar 15, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two

If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

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

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