Susan Collins’s Reputation as a Moderate Is On the Line Susan Collins’s Reputation as a Moderate Is On the Line
She says she’s pro-choice, so how can she justify voting for Brett Kavanaugh?
Sep 12, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism
In her newest play, Lee offers us a look at the straight white man as a specimen.
Sep 11, 2018 / Alisa Solomon
How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval
A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.
Sep 7, 2018 / Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler
The ‘Anti-Catholic’ Playbook The ‘Anti-Catholic’ Playbook
Does Brett Kavanaugh think abortion should be illegal? A secret network of right-wing activists has spent millions attacking such questions as anti-religious bigotry.
Sep 5, 2018 / Sarah Posner
I Want to Explore Polyamory, My Partner Doesn’t. What Should I Do? I Want to Explore Polyamory, My Partner Doesn’t. What Should I Do?
Another reader asks how she can protect others from an ex-colleague who may have assaulted three women.
Aug 31, 2018 / Liza Featherstone
Letters From the September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue Letters From the September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue
‘68 Letdown What a gigantic disappointment the special 1968 issue, “Year of Global Insurrection” [Aug. 27/Sept. 3], must be for anyone who was actually alive and aware in ‘68 and e…
Aug 30, 2018 / Our Readers
The Women of Impressionism The Women of Impressionism
Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Nourse, Berthe Morisot, and Rosa Bonheur were as central to Impressionism’s shifting and often contradictory currents as their male counterparts.
Aug 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Widest Political Divide in America Isn’t Between Left and Right The Widest Political Divide in America Isn’t Between Left and Right
We’re split along racial and gender lines—handing Congress to Democrats in November won’t change that.
Aug 30, 2018 / Column / Kai Wright
Melania Trump: Hero of the People? Melania Trump: Hero of the People?
Amy Wilentz on the first lady, plus Katha Pollitt on the politics of motherhood, and Lee Saunders on unions after Janus.
Aug 30, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Power in the Ivory Tower Power in the Ivory Tower
What on earth is going on at NYU?
Aug 29, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt