Odds Are Your Sporting Hero is an Addict
Image via Earlier this month, Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe was caught outside his parents’ suburban Sydney home attempting to break into a neighbour’s van. Police arrived to find the five-time gold...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Teenage Rap Collective 3L$ Wants to Make Cobb County, Georgia a...
Photo by Quincy Branch. For this week's Mahal, I spoke to 3L$, a 12-member art and rap collective based in Cobb County, Georgia. Many rappers pretend to hail from Atlanta, but this group has no...
View ArticleDon't Drink the Water in West Virginia
Freedom Industries, Inc. School ended early last Monday for students at three elementary schools and one middle school in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Members of the National Guard and the state...
View ArticleWhat 'House Of Cards' Got Right About Hackers
What 'House Of Cards' Got Right About Hackers
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On the cover: Jeans, shirt, and beret by American Apparel. PHOTOS BY JAIME MARTÍNEZ STYLING BY ELLA CEPEDA Styling Assistant: Natalia Comel Models: Ixchel, Lucía, Daniel, Cuauhtémoc, Arantza, María...
View ArticleThe Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico
The Trinity site, New Mexico (photo via) In 1945, the world's first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site, in New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert. The massive blast pulled the white desert sand...
View ArticleThe Swedish Town Being Swallowed by the Earth
A huge crack in the ground—caused by iron-ore mining—working its way toward Kiruna, Sweden. Photos by Klaus Thymann The problem with aggressively mining a single site for more than a century is that...
View ArticleJoaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Captured in Mexico: What You Need to Know
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images. This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more and sign up now at vicenews.com. “I’m a farmer.” So said Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán when the press asked...
View ArticleWhile Kiev Was Burning, Odessa Went Swimming
Photos by Kristina Podobed On January 19, Ukraine's Orthodox Christians celebrated the ancient holiday of Epiphany the same way they always do: by going down to the Black Sea for a mass winter swim....
View ArticleA World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Is Leading the Opposition Party in Ukraine
A World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Is Leading the Opposition Party in Ukraine
View ArticleMossless in America: Eva O'Leary and Harry Griffin
Mossless in America is a column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by Romke...
View ArticleVICE News: Fighting Season in Kandahar - Part 1
Springtime starts with a bang in Afghanistan, as it marks the start of the fighting season between the Taliban and Afghan security forces. For the first time in 12 years, following the US troops'...
View ArticleWhat Is Bruce Gilden Doing?
Photo by Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos What is Bruce Gilden doing? The short answer is, I don’t know. I see Bruce every day. I talk to him about his work, about the evolving photography industry,...
View ArticleThe Greatest American Copywriter Wasn’t a 'Mad Man'
Most of you have never heard of him. He never threatened to jump out of an office window when a client wouldn’t buy his ad, like George Lois, or famously suggested the headline "From those wonderful...
View ArticleI'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'I Am Tom Moody'
Fear is the worst, and I’ve got loads of it. I’ve got an inordinate fear of yoga—actually, I have a fear of being terrible at yoga. I can’t touch my toes, and I fart when I try. Plus I think about all...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Shot by the Police for Holding a Gun-Like Object
Photo via Flickr user Andrew Mason On Valentine’s Day, two police officers in Euharlee, Georgia, showed up at the home of 17-year-old Christopher Roupe to serve a probation-violation warrant on his...
View ArticleEco-Anarchists in France Rioted Against a Hated Airport Project
Photos by the author, Alexandre Hervaud, and Saber Jendoubi On Saturday afternoon, my hometown was set afire as a small group of ultra-left activists turned a demonstration against the construction of...
View ArticleSothern Exposure: Places No One Would Want to Settle
Photos by Scot Sothern It’s 1973 and I’m somewhere in north Florida or maybe south Georgia, behind the wheel and stuck in the moment. A dirt road ambles along, throwing up dust and settling in places...
View ArticleHas New Zealand's Milk Gone Bad?
Milk is a big earner for New Zealand. According to the Ministry of Primary Industries, dairy reaped $13 billion for the country last year. But recent scandals have seen the New Zealand dairy industry...
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