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…