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July 30, 2011
New Nation Column: "Birth Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
Check out Katha's newest Nation column, about the history of birth control and its current "controversy."
An excerpt from the article, which can be read online:
"It's hard to imagine anyone opposing broader access to contraception. But it's lucky that the HHS can accept these recommendations without Congressional approval, because this is America, where anything involving sex and/or women drives some people crazy. How crazy? Two weeks before the recommendations came out, Leonard Blair, the Catholic bishop of Toledo, Ohio, urged Catholic schools and parishes to cease raising money for Susan Komen for The Cure, the country's largest breast cancer charity, because someday it might fund embryonic stem-cell research. Better actual women should die of breast cancer today than that an embryo be theoretically imperiled in the vague and misty future."
An excerpt from the article, which can be read online:
"It's hard to imagine anyone opposing broader access to contraception. But it's lucky that the HHS can accept these recommendations without Congressional approval, because this is America, where anything involving sex and/or women drives some people crazy. How crazy? Two weeks before the recommendations came out, Leonard Blair, the Catholic bishop of Toledo, Ohio, urged Catholic schools and parishes to cease raising money for Susan Komen for The Cure, the country's largest breast cancer charity, because someday it might fund embryonic stem-cell research. Better actual women should die of breast cancer today than that an embryo be theoretically imperiled in the vague and misty future."
July 22, 2011
July 1, 2011
New Nation Column: "Talk the Talk, Walk the SlutWalk"
Check out Katha's newest Nation column about SlutWalk, young feminists' take-it-to-the-streets protest of victim-blaming for sexual violence.
June 13, 2011
New Nation Column: "A Conversation With Saudi Women's Rights Campaigner Wajeha al-Huwaider"
Katha had a conversation with Saudi women's rights and human rights campaigner Wajeha al-Huwaider. Read it online at The Nation. 
June 1, 2011
"DSK Déjà Vu"
Read Pollitt's article on Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged rape attempt and his enablement by the French elite.
New Nation Column: "Dear France, We're So Over"
Read Pollitt's latest Nation column about the French reaction to DSK's attempted rape of his hotel maid.
May 16, 2011
Vacation From War Calling for Donations
Vacation From War is again calling for donations to fund summer camp sessions where low-income Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian children can learn about one another in peace while having fun. This year VFW will continue its groundbreaking sessions in which young Israelis and Palestinians meet and discuss, well, everything. $150 makes you a camper's "godparent." Mail checks made out to "Vacation From War" to Katha Pollitt, c/o The Nation, 33 Irving Place, 8th floor, New York, NY 10003.
New Nation Column: "Women Who Ran With the Republicans"
Read Pollitt's latest Nation column online. 
May 2, 2011
New Nation Column: "The Bitter Tea of Greg Mortenson"
Read Pollitt's column on the scandal surrounding Greg Mortenson and what it means for the education of young girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Click here to read it online.
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