Would Free Public Transport Improve a Country's Economy?
Barcelona Metro photo courtesy of Wiki Commons Over the past few weeks, protesters in Barcelona have united against yet another public-transport fare increase. Using the slogan "Stop Pujades" (Stop...
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Google's new wearable tech device, Glass, has a lot going for it. Sure, it's ridiculously expensive and poses any number of profound ethical concerns. But it also promises to bring augmented-reality...
View ArticleNobody Wants to Talk About Bestiality Until Someone Fucks a Horse
Illustration by Julia Gfrörer On July 2, 2005, Kenneth Pinyan was dropped off by an unidentified man in the emergency room of the sleepy Enumclaw Community Hospital, about 25 miles outside of Tacoma,...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: The Blurring of Fact and Imagination in 'Sway'
Sway, by Zachary Lazar, is a swirling and episodic novel that incorporates the Rolling Stones circa 1969, the avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil in a...
View ArticleAustralia's Drunken Teens Have Nothing On Their Parents
Image by Daniel Bolt Kings Cross without beer goggles is about as much fun as watching somebody else play the pokies, except there are no senior citizens and everybody is wearing Jeffrey Campbell...
View ArticleWhy is China so afraid of the Dalai Lama?
Tomorrow is National Uprising Day in Tibet, an unofficial commemoration of the 1959 rebellion against Chinese soldiers who invaded the territory ten years earlier. 55 years after that rebellion,...
View ArticleUkrainian Revolution Awakens Totalitarian Demons
This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more at vicenews.com. Photo by Sergei Stroitelev While attention has been focused on Russia’s occupation of Crimea, pro-Russian Ukrainians and...
View ArticleGuatemalan Farmers Are Too Poor to Protest
Protesters from the rural town of San Luis, in Petén, Guatemala, hold a sign asking the Constitutional Court to prevent the expansion of hydroelectric development at a demonstration on March 7, 2014,...
View ArticleMeeting Earth's Strongest Men at the Top of the World
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View ArticlePartying with One of Burma's Largest Rebel Armies
All photos by Sam Jam For two hours we've been winding through a dirt track in Thailand’s Daen Lao mountains. The driver's taking it fast, trying to avoid the six Royal Thai Army checkpoints stretched...
View ArticleWelcome to the Bananapocalypse
Panamanian bananas infected with the Fusarium fungus, commonly known as Panama disease. Photo courtesy of environmentmove.com When Andy Warhol designed the iconic banana album cover for 1967’s The...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Akhil Sharma and His New Novel, 'Family Life'
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, VICE editor Krishna Andavolu sits down with novelist Akhil Sharma. Akhil's first novel, An Obedient Father, won the...
View ArticleYakiri Rubio Killed Her Rapist in Self-Defense—Now She May Go to Prison
Yakiri behind bars. All photos by Hans-Máximo Musielik Imagine that you are a 20-year-old woman walking at night to meet your friend or lover. Two men approach you on a motorcycle and say, "Get on,...
View ArticleHell Will Freeze Over Before Chevron Pays for Pollution
When 30,000 Ecuadorian villagers sued Chevron in 1993 for devastating the Amazon with 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, the US-based oil giant’s reply was simple: "We will fight [the lawsuit]...
View ArticleAustralia's Shark Cull Is Killing the Wrong Sharks
Australia's Shark Cull Is Killing the Wrong Sharks
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Two High Schools in New York Are Accusing Each Other of...
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. –Three students at...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 3
The blockade by Russia of Ukrainian military installations in Crimea continues. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky spoke with families of personnel barricaded inside, who complained about the...
View ArticleThe Return of Radioactive Man
Last year, we released Radioactive Man—a story about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. As we approach the third anniversary of the disaster, VICE Japan returned to check on the cleanup...
View ArticleShaq Is Testing the Limits of 90s Nostalgia with Another Video Game
Shaq has lent his likeness to many basketball video games over the years. But the one time he tried to branch out of sports games, it didn't go over so well. Shaq Fu, a Street Fighter-esque fighting...
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