An Excerpt from Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown's New Book
Image via Barrett Brown's Youtube page Editor's note: Barrett Brown is an activist-journalist whom VICE has covered (and interviewed) extensively, and who is awaiting trial in an American jail. He is...
View ArticleBlobby Boys - Part 2
Click here for Blobby Boys - Part 1. Keep your eyes peeled for new installments of Blobby Boys every Wednesday from here until the end of time. Or until Alex gets sick of working with us.
View ArticleWhy More People Are Murdered in Caracas than in Baghdad
Why More People Are Murdered in Caracas than in Baghdad
View ArticleAbolish Prison!
Illustration via Flickr user DonkeyHotey Prisons are terrible, torturous places where people—who are usually poor and disproportionately of color—are subjected daily to crimes more horrific than the...
View ArticleThe Sardonic Protest Art of the Ukrainian Revolution
The media and medical reports aren't the only documentations of the revolutionary events in Ukraine these past four months. Local visual artists, both professional and amateur, have also been trying...
View ArticleScientists Are (Finally) Studying LSD Again
Scientists Are (Finally) Studying LSD Again
View ArticleWootton Bassett Is a Paradise
This must-visit destination is Wootton Bassett, a town somewhere between Bath and Oxford in England, where the locals' love of superb postmodernist architecture is surpassed only by their love of sick...
View ArticleImagining 'Game of Thrones' Characters as Rappers
Imagining 'Game of Thrones' Characters as Rappers
View ArticleWe Called Ordinary Russians and Tried to Broker World Peace
Been speaking to ordinary Russians about the situation in Ukraine. We are united in confusion http://t.co/Oc8n145SJo pic.twitter.com/MYNt7JUEda — Gavin Haynes (@gavhaynes) March 6, 2014 In case you...
View ArticleAmerican Art Needs More Holes
The biggest hindrance to American art is the inability to see anything outside our own walls. We’re proud of being a “melting pot,” but when it comes to culture not inherently American (Wendy’s,...
View ArticleWhy Putin Will Get Everything He Wants in Crimea
This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more at vicenews.com. Even before the Crimean parliament voted unanimously today to ask Moscow for permission to become a part of Russia,...
View ArticleAn Interview with North Korea's UK Spokesman
Image via Friends of Korea North Korea has been getting some fairly rank press in recent years. And in times of such deplorable slander from the “monopoly capitalist media of the West," we must seek...
View ArticleDid Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's Elusive Creator, Just Get Unmasked?
Nakamoto’s identity has been a mystery since the beginning of Bitcoin, with plenty of wild theories fuelling the puzzle’s fire. Was he a Japanese mathematician? A cryptography student? A government...
View ArticleSriracha Aged in Whiskey Barrels Is Better Than the Original Sauce
When I first wrote about how I was dealing with the now-lifted sriracha ban, I got the strangest emails, tweets, and ideas on how to enjoy the sauce. Weirdly enough, too many of them involved whiskey....
View ArticleKiev's Elite Vigilante Group Is Still Ready to Fight
The Iron Hundred pay tribute to fallen fellow protesters. All photos by the author The protesters who occcupied Kiev's Independence Square may have deposed hated president Viktor Yanukovych, but they...
View ArticleSpark the Bong and Listen to Some Motherfucking Wizard Rock
Spark the Bong and Listen to Some Motherfucking Wizard Rock
View ArticleBritain's King of Adultery Helps Married People Cheat
Photo via Flickr user Harsh Agrawal Are you bored of monogamy? Do you just have an uncontrollable urge to have sex with someone other than the person you sleep next to every night? If so, I have some...
View ArticleNASA's Going to Try to Lasso an Asteroid Before Congress Can Stop It
NASA’s new budget calls for an acceleration of its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit, making the controversial idea more likely to happen.
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Ed Templeton - Part 3
In part three of Ed's Epicly Later'd, Ed looks back what was arguably the peak of his skate career—when he dropped out of high school to conquer Europe in 1990, landing the covers of Thrasher and...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Pro Skater Leo Romero Is the Mexican Johnny Cash
Professional skateboarding has a lot of downtime. Injury, rainy days, hangovers—all are valid reasons for a skater not to do his or her job on a given day. So most people in this profession have...
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