Hannah Steinkopf-Frank is a Chicago-based freelance writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Atlas
Obscura, Bitch Media, the Columbia Journalism Review, JSTOR Daily and Paper Magazine, among others.
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Labor
Scabby the Rat Is Under Attack
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Viewpoint
Chicago’s Elections Brought a Lot of Good News for Progressives—and Democratic Socialists
Rahm Emanuel is gone, and a new crop of left-wing city council members is coming to power.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Labor
Illinois Manufacturing Workers Locked Out and Fired for One-Hour Strike
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Labor
“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Labor
Why Domestic Workers Are Fighting Like Hell to Stop Brett Kavanaugh
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Feature
How Kavanaugh Is Infuriating—And Electrifying—The Grassroots
Allegations are mounting, and so are public protests.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Culture
How a 19th-Century Absurdist Playwright Accidentally Predicted Trump
Ubu Roi is newly relevant, thanks to our president.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Rural America
Can Hunters and Activists Team Up to Phase Out Lead Bullets?
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Culture
Emmett Till’s Cousin on Why Mississippi’s Flag Is Still Racist
Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan is at the forefront of a movement to remove the Confederate “stars and bars.”
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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Culture
Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age
The creator of The Queen of Versailles on the “hamster wheel of wanting more and more.”
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank