Kathleen Geier

In the wake of all the attention given to last week’s Supreme Court rulings that gutted the Voting Rights Act and strengthened same-sex marriage rights, some of the Court’s other major decisions have gotten short shrift. Most importantly, while Justice Roberts and company were busy shredding the Voting Rights Act, they decided to trash Title […]

In honor of Pride Day, here’s a song that always puts a smile on my face. It’s from Jon Cameron Mitchell’s wonderful film of Stephen Trask’s glam rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

I grew up in New Jersey, in the part of the state that this jokey map refers to as “Christie Country.” So when it comes to the media’s love affair with Chris Christie, and the way he seems to give some Democratic plutocrats a thrill up their leg, I am especially appalled. Believe me, I […]

I wanted to hip readers to a fabulous new website created by the invaluable Economic Policy Institute. It’s called Inequality Is, and it looks at what I believe to be the most serious problem facing our country, and the world, today: economic inequality. (I think it’s our most important problem because, among other things, it’s […]

Allow my to mount a hobbyhorse of mine. Like every other progressive in America, I was thrilled, inspired, and utterly gobsmacked by Texas state senator Wendy Davis’s heroic filibuster to stop a bill that was a monstrous imposition on women’s reproductive, and thus existential, freedom. It was a brilliant piece of political theater and a […]

I’ve got to hand it the GOP. They never run out of things to freak out about. When they exhaust reality-based events (unsurprisingly, they were not fans of this week’s Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage), they move on to things that have a grain of truth, but which they systematically distort. (Yes, the IRS […]

The Coup is a hip hop outfit of Oakland, California who have been around for over 20 years now. Radicals to the bone, they not only write lyrics that are sharp, funny, and deeply political, but musically, they can lay down some killin’ grooves. Michelle Malkin called one of their records “stomach-turning” — yes, they […]

I am sad to report that tonight will be the last episode of the season of what has become one of my all-time favorite television shows, Game of Thrones. Last week’s episode, which was so electrifying to viewers it almost broke the internets, was one of its finest, and its infamous wedding sequence was a […]

Recently, there’s been a round of news stories focusing on various problems with the nation’s largest retailer, and one of its worst employers, Walmart. These problems range from national and international labor issues, to poor customer service, low-quality produce, empty shelves, and declining sales. At the same time, Costco, the nation’s second largest retailer which […]

I wish I had something useful to contribute to the discussion about the NSA spying scandal. Sadly, I don’t — I’m still in the learning-and-processing stage. But since I feel I should post something about it this week, I’ll direct you to some of the more interesting updates and commentary I’ve found: — Edward Snowden, […]