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Pollitt: Wisconsin GOP Legislators Go After Single Mothers
Znet Article, March, 28 2012
Katha Pollitt
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What should battered wives do? Love their husbands more!
Pollitt: Ron Paul's Strange Bedfellows
Znet Article, January, 07 2012
Katha Pollitt
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In Ron Paul’s America, if you weren’t prudent enough or wealthy enough to buy private insurance, you find a charity or die
Pollitt: Penn State's Patriarchal Pastimes
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Katha Pollitt
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Cancel the season. Fire everybody. Get real about rape. Grow up.
Pollitt: We Are All Occupiers Now
Znet Article, November, 08 2011
Katha Pollitt
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Arch condescension was definitely the dominant tone of mainstream coverage
Pollitt: It Takes a Village, Not a Tiger
Znet Article, February, 16 2011
Katha Pollitt
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Are you a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent, an attachment mom, a permissive free spirit who just wants your child to be herself?
Pollitt: Global Women: Good News, Bad News
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Katha Pollitt
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And the winner is... Iceland! According to the 2009 Global Gender Gap report of the World Economic Forum, the land of glaciers and puffins, population 319,000, is the most gender egalitarian country on earth, with women having closed 80 percent of...
Pollitt: Time for Men to Make a Sacrifice
Znet Article, November, 16 2009
Katha Pollitt
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Women are being asked to shut up and accept the ban on abortion funding in the US healthcare reform bill. We won't
Pollitt: Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
Znet Article, October, 01 2009
Katha Pollitt
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If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famous director, a lot of famous and gifted people think the answer is yes. Polanski, who drugged and anally raped ...
Pollitt: Women's Rights and the Mullahs
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Katha Pollitt
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The massive participation by women in Iran's street demonstrations is surprising only if you accept the mullahs' view of women as weak and passive vessels.
Pollitt: Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Katha Pollitt
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It couldn't have been easy for Bill Ayers to keep quiet while the McCain campaign tarred him as the Obama's best friend, the terrorist. Unfortunately, the silence was too good to last. On Saturday's New York Times op- ed page, he announced that "i...
Pollitt: Backlash Spectacular
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Katha Pollitt
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Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Let me run that by you again. Washington University, the distinguished 155-year-old seat of higher learning in St. Louis, is giving an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly--arc...
Pollitt: Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
Znet Article, February, 12 2006
Katha Pollitt
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Betty Friedan is dead at 85--a brilliant, pugnacious woman who lived a big life and wrote a big book, a book that helped change our world, in every way for the better. The far-right magazine Human Events knew what it was doing when it put The Femi...
Pollitt: It Wasn't All Bad
Znet Article, January, 01 2006
Katha Pollitt
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All year long it's been one piece of bad news after another, but now it's time to put on the rose-colored glasses and list some of the good things that happened in 2005. I had to e-mail about fifty people to come up with these items, but that's OK...
Pollitt: Should Roe Go?
Znet Article, July, 22 2005
Katha Pollitt
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Should prochoicers just give up and let Roe go? With the resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor, more people are asking that question. Democratic Party insiders quietly wonder if abandoning abortion rights would win back white Catholics and evangelica...
Pollitt: The Cheese Stands Alone
Znet Article, March, 13 2005
Katha Pollitt
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Beijing Plus 10, the follow-up on the momentous 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, is opening at the United Nations as I write, and like other UN gatherings since George W. Bush became President, it offers a great chance to spend ti...
Pollitt: Summers of Our Discontent
Znet Article, February, 18 2005
Katha Pollitt
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As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man. A distinguished economist who was Treasury Secretary under Clinton, Summers caused a firestorm on January 14 when,...
Pollitt: Pull Over, NASCAR Dads
Znet Article, March, 29 2004
Katha Pollitt
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Pull Over, NASCAR Dads
Pollitt: Us: Feminism Lite
Znet Article, July, 17 2003
Katha Pollitt
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THE women's movement has transformed the United States in just over 30 years. Stroll through a park and you'r...
