Fascinators and ties were the dress code as the country stood still for a day to celebrate the culmination of Australian horse racing at the Melbourne Cup. As one of the biggest events in the Australian sports calendar, the Melbourne Cup is also one of the most important events on the global horse racing scene. […]

In high school, and much of my first year of college, I shied away from any belief or position that remotely referenced that dreaded f-word: feminism. I felt it was too intense, too polarizing. I had a very skewed vision of what it actually meant (read: equality for all) and also thought that just because […]

With midterms in full swing, and work and responsibility raining down on everyone’s heads, Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights provides some welcome magic and entertainment. This is the newest book by the controversial author, who has dealt with brutal critics. Rushdie has also been through a fatwa, an Islamic religious ruling, […]