What Happens to a Feminist Dream Deferred? What Happens to a Feminist Dream Deferred?
Three writers consider what the 2016 election reveals about the state of feminism today.
Jan 12, 2017 / Melissa Murray, Kathleen Geier, and Catherine Powell
Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary’s Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism’s relationship to class politics.
Nov 11, 2016 / Kathleen Geier
We Asked 4 Prominent Bernie Supporters if They’d Vote for Hillary in November. Here’s What They Told Us. We Asked 4 Prominent Bernie Supporters if They’d Vote for Hillary in November. Here’s What They Told Us.
Is there an argument to be made for “Bernie or Bust”?
Apr 11, 2016 / Doug Henwood, Rania Khalek, Kathleen Geier, and Joshua Holland
Bernie’s Greatest Weakness Bernie’s Greatest Weakness
Race and gender issues frequently seem like an afterthought to him, and he doesn’t embrace them with anywhere near the fervor he devotes to economic inequality.
Jan 22, 2016 / Kathleen Geier
Who’s Ready for Hillary? Who’s Ready for Hillary?
Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.
Nov 24, 2014 / Feature / Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles, and Richard Yeselson
How to End the Criminalization of America’s Mothers How to End the Criminalization of America’s Mothers
Other countries provide childcare and income supports for poor mothers; in the United States, we arrest them.
Aug 21, 2014 / Sarah Jaffe, Mariame Kaba, Randy Albelda, and Kathleen Geier
How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
Reading the economist’s book through a feminist lens reveals the need for a richer array of anti-inequality policies.
Aug 6, 2014 / Kathleen Geier, Kate Bahn, Joelle Gamble, Zillah Eisenstein, and Heather Boushey
What Do the Recent Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Women’s Economic Security? What Do the Recent Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Women’s Economic Security?
In the final days of its last term, the Supreme Court handed down three rulings of major consequence for women. Our panelists discuss.
Jul 17, 2014 / Kathleen Geier, Sarah Jaffe, and Sheila Bapat
Will the Democratic Party Deliver for Working Women? Will the Democratic Party Deliver for Working Women?
In The Curve’s second roundtable discussion, our contributors ask what legislative goals feminists can really achieve in Washington.
Jun 24, 2014 / Kathleen Geier and Curve Contributors
Does Feminism Have a Class Problem? Does Feminism Have a Class Problem?
Whatever you think of Sheryl Sandberg, her book Lean In achieved one very important objective: it exposed the deep class divide within American feminism.
Jun 11, 2014 / Kathleen Geier and Curve Contributors