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When abortion was illegal, there was no organized, aggressive antiabortion movement with a wing of violent fanatics
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt is a columnist at The Nation. She is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her “Subject to Debate” column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post
called “the best place to go for original thinking on the left,” appears regularly in The Nation. “Subject to Debate” won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2003, and was a finalist in 2013. Pollitt is also the recipient of the American Sociological Association Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at Type Media Center.
The facts are too scarce, and the stakes are too high, to jump to conclusions. We cannot flourish as a society if a single accusation out of the blue upends an election overnight and ruins a 30-year career in politics
A Trump victory will lock down the courts for decades. I cannot believe that a rational person can grasp the disaster that is Donald Trump and withhold their support from Biden because of Tara Reade
Some on the left are still waving away the inconvenient facts that don’t fit with their politics
Democracy, such as it is, really is in danger.
Feminists like Germaine Greer should be valued for what they get right, rather than banned for what they get wrong
Why does the pro-choice movement so often find itself in a defensive crouch?
Abortion opponents are at the forefront of a wider effort to punish poor women and attack social services
Let’s say you’re a woman who wants to have a handsome man worship your body, desire you intensely, focus on you sexually…
. Somehow the separation of church and state has come to mean blocking the state from protecting the civil rights of citizens and forcing it to support—and pay for—sectarianism, bigotry, superstition and bullying