Why Are New York City Cops Cracking Down on Subway Panhandlers?
Buskers on the New York City subway. Photo via Flickr user Gary H. Spielvogel If you live in a large American city, chances are you've had an encounter with a panhandler on public transit. Perhaps the...
View ArticlePhotos of the Mining Boom That Is Transforming the American West
Lucas Foglia's new project, Frontcountry, took seven years to complete. Edited down from 60,000 photos to just 60, his pictures document the current mining boom transforming the American West....
View ArticleVICE News: South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
In the 1970s, South Africa was the world's most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country. However, Johannesburg sits...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Fuck Like a Nerd?
Photo via Flickr user Catherine Snodgrass The 1980s image of nerds as desexualized virgins was as outdated then as it is laughable now. For a start, there's no longer one kind of nerd. The intense...
View ArticleThe Maddening Beauty of Romanian Living Rooms
Oppressive regimes have a tendency to force certain fashions on their people. From al Shabaab's ban of bras to Kim Jong-un's latest haircut mandate, one could say that, from an aesthetic point of...
View ArticleAthens Celebrated Its Latest Bailout Payment by Rioting
To get the ball rolling on the next instalment of Greece's bailout payment, yesterday Athens welcomed a bunch of European Union finance ministers. Naturally, this brought out the anti-austerity...
View ArticleThe World's Largest Christian TV Network Has a Lot to Hide
Trinity Broadcasting Network (or TBN) is the largest Christian TV network in the world. Its shows are currently available in 95 percent of American homes. TBN has its headquarters in Costa Mesa,...
View ArticleExploring Kashmir's Idyllic Meadow of Death
A farmer and woodcutter, 65-year-old Mohammad Abdullah Malik, lost his hand in 2010 while cutting grass in the meadow. Kashmir's tourism ministry has done a pretty good job promoting their portion of...
View ArticleVICE News: Election Day in Turkey: Ballots, Watchdogs, and Fraud
After many turbulent weeks of campaigning amid protests, charges of corruption, and online censorship, election day finally arrived in Turkey. People in Istanbul had been talking about it like the...
View ArticleThis Danish Guy Has Legal Sex with His Dog
Illustration by Cei Willis It hasn't been long since the Copenhagen Zoo pissed off the entire internet by turning a young, healthy giraffe named Marius into lion food. But last week, they were at it...
View ArticleSelf-Righteous Food TV Makes Me Hate Food and Myself
They never show my dinner on TV. The ubiquity of food TV has become gross. On any given week, scrolling through the TV listings can feel a lot like being strapped down and waterboarded with melted...
View ArticleHow Indigenous Tribes in Central America Are Fighting Back Against Drug Cartels
How Indigenous Tribes in Central America Are Fighting Back Against Drug Cartels
View ArticleWhy Is the Obamacare Website Still Such a Piece of Crap?
Photo courtesy of the White House The past couple of months have been pretty rough for the Affordable Care Act. President Obama's signature health-care reform law barely limped out of the gates last...
View ArticleComics: Blobby Boys - Part 6
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 ArticleRemembering Frankie Knuckles, Godfather of House Music
Remembering Frankie Knuckles, Godfather of House Music
View ArticleBlasting Off with Dr. DMT
Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, is responsible for groundbreaking research on dimethyltryptamine that reopened the legal doors for serious psychedelic study after decades of...
View ArticleI Took My Tinder Date to Montreal's Finest Peep Show
It was the kind of place where the mysterious stains are exactly what you think they are. Wherever there are people, there is masturbation. From the plains in Africa and the mines in Mongolia to the...
View ArticleHeaven's Gate Was the Silicon Valley of Suicide Cults
Heaven's Gate Was the Silicon Valley of Suicide Cults
View ArticleYoung Native Girls Are Being Sacrificed to the Canadian Sex Trade
The city of Iqaluit. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Kimmy (not her real name) was just 12 years old the first time she gave a grown man a handjob for money. Her 13-year-old sister helped, and the more...
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