Adnan Khan

News

What Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper can Learn From Each Other

Besides loving church and hating science, the Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada have a lot in common—including awkward expense scandals.
Adnan Khan
10.14.13
Stuff

Teju Cole is Way Better at Twitter Than You

Teju Cole has gained notoriety as a champion of the artistic merits of Twitter. He has a series of tweets that are about as vital as any I’ve encountered, and has also spoken regularly about the impact Twitter will have on the novel.
Adnan Khan
8.28.13
Stuff

Junot Diaz Says, Writing Is a Lot Like Basketball

The best interviews are the ones when you can talk about girls, white supremacy, and video games. Junot Diaz is an authority on all those things.
Adnan Khan
8.23.13
Stuff

I Tried to Celebrate Ramadan With a Bunch of Muslims I Don’t Know

I’ve been feeling pretty down lately—I think living away from my family and friends in Toronto for about four years is finally starting to get to me. I wanted to feel part of something that felt like home and the Muslim Eid Festival seemed like the...
Adnan Khan
8.16.13
News

Australia, Is Tony Abbott The Better Choice?

Abbott and Rudd call themselves leaders but you have no idea what you’re getting. As a young, brown, broke, inner city dude, the pundits say I’m inclined towards Rudd and Labor but this recent PNG hop over to the far right muddled up what was already...
Adnan Khan
8.8.13
News

Why the PNG Solution is What Australia Wants

Being considered a bunch of pussies has long been Labor’s problem when dealing with the boats. When Howard began the public discourse by framing himself as a sort of Aussie Battler strongman, it was inevitable that the left were going to look like...
Adnan Khan
7.25.13
Travel

The Sliding Aussie Dollar Still Holds Promise for Broke Backpackers

When I was travelling I met many Australians and every time I mentioned that I'd always been interested in coming over they took it as an opportunity to brag about how well they'd made it through the Global Financial Crisis
Adnan Khan
7.4.13
News

Burmese Buddhists Are Now Oppressing Rohingyan Ovaries

Burma wants to implement a child policy that will limit the number of children the Rohingya Muslims can have which is backed by many members of the Buddhist community.
Adnan Khan
6.25.13
Stuff

I Went to the Mind Body Spirit Festival and Got Told I Was Spiritually Empty

Billed as Australia’s largest “health, wellbeing and natural therapies” event, the Mind Body Spirit pretty much exists to stop us from feeling so sad that everything is so incredibly fucked up.
Adnan Khan
6.14.13
News

Does Being Total Assholes To Boat People Actually Work?

When I first glimpsed headlines about the exclusion of Australia’s mainland from its migration zone I thought it had to do with birds.
Adnan Khan
5.29.13
Stuff

OurSay Wants to Ask your Drug Questions in Parliament

With the federal election looming, both major parties seem to be avoiding the drug discussion. We're partnering with OurSay to get your questions about drugs asked by an actual senator at Question Time.
Adnan Khan
5.28.13
Music

Channelling Wheatgrass and LSD with King Khan & BBQ

Mark Sultan shared his potent thoughts on brotherhood, getting old, and how no one drinks piss at his shows anymore.
Adnan Khan
5.22.13
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