Fast Food Restaurants

The guy who whipped your Bojangles' biscuits? He doesn't have any paid sick days. The woman who served your dynamite shrimp at The Cheesecake Factory? She earns less than $5 an hour before tips. Working conditions in America's restaurants are notoriously lousy, and according to a new survey, diners actually care ...

In the book-turned-movie "Thank You for Smoking," tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor meets every week with his buds, a firearms lobbyist and alcohol lobbyist, and later with lobbyists from the fast food, hazardous waste and oil drilling industries. They call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD ...