Kathleen Geier

One of the most reliably entertaining spectacles in American politics occurs when conservatives play the victim card. A group that is overwhelmingly composed of prosperous white males, conservatives are obsessed with the delusion that nobody knows the troubles they’ve seen. ...

The multi-billion dollar battle royale between Apple and Samsung has headed to the jury deliberation phase. To sum up: Apple is accusing Samsung of violating five patents on its iPhone and iPad products, including the ones that cover such features as slide-to-unlock and ...

In Chicago this past weekend, a tragic story made headlines. A thirty-two-year-old anti-violence advocate named Leonore Draper was shot and killed while returning home from an anti-violence charity event. Police say that Draper was a victim of gang crossfire. The Leonore Draper ...

With his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty has lobbed a truth bomb that has blown up several decades’ worth of received opinion about the way the economy works in capitalist societies. He makes a powerful, meticulously-argued, data-driven case that ...

Conservatives are rarely more gleeful than when they’re accusing liberals of hypocrisy. That’s why they accusing the left of illiberal “intolerance,” as they did recently when Mozilla fired its homophobic CEO, Brendan Eich (he had donated to an anti-gay marriage ...

Paul Krugman says we’re living in a “New Gilded Age,” an era of government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich. Last week’s McCutcheon decision from the Supreme Court, which struck down the aggregate limit an individual can contribute in capped political ...

Media coverage of Wall Street scandals often vilifies individuals or specific practices as corrupt while failing to grapple with deeper problems posed by the financial sector. Missing from most coverage, too, is an examination of the growing role Wall Street has come to play in ...

In Silicon Valley there really is a class war going on, a wage-fixing cartel that’s pitting the one percent against everyone else. Thomas Piketty, the economist who wrote the new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is most famous for his insight that economic inequality ...