Hannah Kapp-Klote

This Friday was not the day to get a hamburger in Detroit. Hundreds of fast food workers walked off the job, leaving fast food companies including Wendy's, McDonald's, and Jimmy John's, without workers.  The strike was part of a larger worker-driven…

The Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act this week, and everyone seems to be on board with the bill: Republicans, Democrats, the states, even large retailer Amazon, who would be directly inconvenienced, is on board. Everyone, that is, but…

It’s not the best time to be young, from an economic perspective. Members of the millennial generation, born between 1985 and 2000, face long-term challenges to their ability to find jobs and have long term career stability — in short, they’re…

Joel Stein, with his litany of facts, surveys, and anecdotes, shows us that in spite of the super special rhetoric that milennials are used to — generational saviors of the world, the reincarnation of the Greatest Generation — we’re not as great as…

A new bill in the House that gives families new opportunities to balance home and work, without fear of losing pay? It sounds too good to be true — and it is. However, the Working Families Flexibility Act, introduced by Martha Roby (R-Ala.), claims…

Howard Kurtz’s bizarre article on the coming out of NBA player Jason Collins, in which he incorrectly stated that Collins did not tell the press that he had at one point been engaged, led to his dismissal from the Daily Beast. He followed up with an…

Prom is the strangest and most fetishized American high school ritual: our popular culture displays its variation in films from Mean Girls to Carrie, and everyone can remember their prom (whether they attended or not). Spending a significant amount…

On Friday morning I woke up to birds chirping and snow lightly falling outside my window. Since it’s early May, and even Iowa’s strange weather patterns are not so bizarre as to make spring snowfall a given, one of those things seemed incongruous.…

Those working in the Pentagon have a range of electronics: the department has 470,000 Blackberry users, 41,000 Apple users and 8,700 people with Android devices.  However, only one of those groups can use their devices with higher ranked security…

James Ponsoldt just announced that he will be making a movie about young Hillary Rodham (soon to be Clinton), an ambitious young lawyer working for the Judiciary committee during the Watergate scandal torn between her career and her former boyfriend…

In the 1960s and 1970s, LGBT liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there could be no justice for LGBT people without justice for…

Pop singer Pink has a new interview with Glamour in which she discusses being a mother, her “mama bear” love of her child, and things that have changed about her life since she first became active in 2000.  In her interview, she refers to herself as…

Who knew arm muscle could be so political? Michelle Obama’s muscled arms have been the subject of much media scrutiny and public envy: in spite of the controversy about her arms, it seems that American women are interested in emulating her, if the…

On Monday morning, an explosion ripped through the capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague, injuring over 35 people. Experts on the scene now believe that this incident was a result of a gas leak rather than a terrorist attack, and are clearing…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is contending that the Detroit State Police Department is taking homeless residents and dumping them outside of city limits. If a non-public entity were to do this, one might call it kidnapping, but when it…

What is the real cost of the inexpensive underwear and t-shirts at Walmart? Potentially, thousands of lives.  An eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that had contracts with Walmart and Dress Barn, among other retailers, has collapsed. The…

A new national protocol designed to meet the “emotional and physical needs” of sexual assault victims has been developed that includes information on emergency contraception. The national guide, a voluntary outline of standards of care for medical…

With all the talk about marriage equality, a bill fundamental to protecting the rights of LGBTQ people has almost slipped under the radar: however, it is perhaps the single piece of legislation most critical to the LGBTQ movement. The Employment…

The U.S. Department of State has released a report that chastises Israel for its policies of “institutional discrimination” against its Palestinian citizens, as well as those living in the Occupied Territories. The report, issued as part of the…