Katha Pollitt

Weekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.20.2011

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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors ...

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Is Marriage a Barbarian-Adoption Program?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

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Bella DePaulo

Married men are less generous with their friends after marrying. How, does this qualify as acting "more civilized," as the Marriage Mafia claim?

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Liberal Causes: What Happened To Women?

Katha Pollitt | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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On August 26, 1970, thousands of women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue as part of the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. ... Forty yea...

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Jason Linkins

Nation's Pollitt: Bill Kristol Better Than Ross Douthat

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Nation's Katha Pollitt apparently saw the need to pen a column objecting to all the people of liberal bent who praised the decision made by the Ne...

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