In America, our visual media has a default masculine bias, bombarding females daily with unrealistic images of “ideal beauty.”  So what’s a poor Vandy girl to do?  Sadly

With every onslaught of midterms comes an equally important set of time-wasters. Perusing Facebook is the old standby, but last year FailBlog and Sporcle became popular.

The Noble Prize has always been a political affair, even when comes to literature. Last year, Horace Engdahl went as far as to say, “The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature, that ignorance is restraining."

This year, 11 out of 13 Nobel Prize winners were American nationals or those of American citizenship.

Thanks to one of my lovely friends, I occasionally get the chance to look at The Week magazine, which does the work of looking through the endless news information available and filtering it for th

It’s definitely not an age-old question, but it comes up enough: Would it be awkward if I friended him on Facebook?

Last Friday, everyone learned the shocking news that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. However, this news has not been greeted with mass ecstasy by the American people.

Rome didn’t fall in a day, but America might. The United States is currently neglecting the newest arms race. This arms race isn’t against a state.

Be well-rounded. Keep your priorities straight. Stay focused. Cover your bases. Sound familiar much?

Growing up in the Windy City, I am proud to call myself a Chicagoan.