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What is it with progressive mancrushes on right-wing Republicans? For years, until he actually got nominated, John McCain was the recipient of…
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.
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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…