Katha Pollitt

Much of the immediate commentary on the election turned out to be wrong. If we want to avoid the same outcome in the future, we'd better slow down.

Much of the immediate commentary on the election turned out to be wrong. If we want to avoid the same outcome in the future, we'd better slow down.

The president and his cronies are committed to rolling progress back to the Stone Age. The effects could outlast his second term.

A new play about Roald Dahl shows the now-controversial children’s writer in his flawed, complicated reality.

The anonymity of the Internet makes us all vulnerable to 
being swindled—and it’s making us trust each other less.

It’s a long-standing tradition to blame all manner of social ills on women, without any basis in fact.

The state of the world has been looking dark. Helping our fellow human beings is one way to add some light.

First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.

AI porn is what happens when technology liberates misogyny from social constraints.

The big-budget movie keeps much of the violence and spectacle but none of the nuance and wit of the classical epic.