Kathleen Geier

A Trump impeachment would demonstrate to voters that the Democratic Party’s days of coddling the rich and powerful are over.

On the domination of family clans.

Last December, President Obama delivered a speech in which he boldly declared that economic inequality is a “defining issue of our time.” It was a watershed moment — an ambitious speech on a topic presidents rarely address, let alone at such at length. Commenters ...

This week, the Swedish furniture giant Ikea announced that it plans to start paying its retail workers a living wage. The new hourly minimum will be based on regional estimates derived from the MIT Living Wage Calculator. Beginning next year, the average minimum wage of Ikea ...

The New York Times published a story this week about one of those searing episodes in the life of working people in America that lately seem to occur with distressing frequency. This particular story concerned an Arizona woman named Shanesha Taylor who, desperate for a job and ...

[This essay contains mild spoilers for the new season of Orange Is the New Black.] I am an unabashed fan of women’s prison movies. The kind I prefer are not the 1970s women-behind-bars exploitation flicks that catered to straight mens’ sexual fantasies, but the ones made ...

George Bernard Shaw became a socialist by reading a book. Oddly enough, the book that converted him was not a political tract, but a novel: Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Shaw regarded Dorrit as “a more seditious book than Das Kapital.” The novel centers around the ...

By now, you’ve probably heard about the automobile accident in New Jersey last weekend that nearly killed comedian Tracy Morgan, and did kill Morgan’s colleague, James McNair. Morgan remains in critical condition and is expected to remain hospitalized for weeks, and three ...