The VICE Report: Australia's Biker Club Crisis
It's now tougher than ever to be a biker in Australia (or "bikie," as they're called Down Under). In 2013 Campbell Newman, premier of the state of Queensland, declared that 26 motorcycle clubs were to...
View ArticleI Was Sexually Assaulted in Palestine and Israel
The author in Israel in 2011 In the summer of 2011, as a 20-year-old working for a Palestinian news agency, I went to see one of the famous protests at the small village of Bil’in. These...
View ArticleIn Defense of Chain Restaurants
My intense love of chain restaurants comes from a pure place, wholly devoid of irony. Some of my happiest childhood memories are of patronizing the Red Lobster in the parking lot of the Salinas,...
View ArticleIs New York Serious This Time About Legalizing Medical Marijuana?
A recent pro-legalization event in Union Square, Manhattan. Photo via Flickr user Joe Mazzola New Yorkers think of themselves as the most socially tolerant, forward-thinking people on Earth, but when...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Raving
Photo by Alex Patterson Everyone's a raver now. “Guitar music is dead” is the kind of thing your dad says—that’s how dead it is. Now, it’s all beats and bells and whistles. The future you glimpsed in...
View ArticleVICE News: The Rise of Sweden's Far-Left Militants
Ultra-nationalist political parties scored unprecedented victories at the European elections, making the rise of the far right in Europe impossible to ignore. Many of these groups, some of which are...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: My Friend, Jonah
I speak of the Apocalypse of Jonah Hill. It’s one that is particularly enjoyable. Jonah is a person who is so damn entertaining, a lovable mensch who embodies so much and has so much more to give. So...
View ArticleElliot Rodger and the Toxic Weight of Virginity
A screenshot from the now famous YouTube video in which Elliot Rodger announced his murderous intentions In the days following Friday’s shooting in Santa Barbara, California, during which 22-year-old...
View ArticleDoes Anyone Care That One Direction Was Caught Smoking Weed?
Photo by Jake Lewis Shock isn't the currency it used to be. There was a time when it was involuntary, like bruising after getting punched; you saw something shocking and you were shocked—it was...
View ArticleWe Interviewed the Shit Out of the Guy from Smash Mouth
We Interviewed the Shit Out of the Guy from Smash Mouth
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Aboriginal Women Being Murdered in Canada?
Photo by Nicky Young In February, the frozen body of 26-year-old Loretta Saunders, a pregnant Inuit woman from Labrador, Canada, was found dumped onto a highway median in New Brunswick. Saunders, a...
View ArticleSeth Troxler: "Dance Festivals are The Best and Worst Places in The World"
Seth Troxler: "Dance Festivals are The Best and Worst Places in The World"
View ArticleTraining Burmese Refugees for Western Living
Thailand’s largest refugee camp, Mae La, is a dense, overcrowded city of over 43,000 people on the country’s border with Burma. Bamboo huts sprawl over hills, their dirt-floor interiors containing few...
View ArticleLegendary Journalist Sebastian Junger Is (Almost) Done Covering Wars
Sebastian Junger in Korengal. Photo by Tim Hetherington Sebastian Junger knows what war is. The journalist, who rose to fame in 1997 with his best-selling book The Perfect Storm, spent months in...
View ArticleHood Housewife
Vintage headscarf and jewelry PHOTOS BY MIYAKO BELLIZZI STYLING: MIYAKO BELLIZZI Makeup and Hair: Melissa Abad Models: Synmia Rosine Vintage onesie and jewelry, Joyrich purse; Unif onesie, vintage...
View ArticleThe Government's Budget 2014 Pamphlet
This week the Abbot government announced that it would be supplying a pamphlet detailing the realities of the budget for those affected by it. VICE managed to obtain a preliminary copy of a draft....
View ArticleIn-N-Out Burger Might Be Too Good to Be True
In-N-Out Burger Might Be Too Good to Be True
View ArticleAustralia PM Promises Not to Recoup Student Loan Debt From Unborn Children
Not happy that student loan debts will already haunt us for most of our lives, Australian Federal Education Minister Chris Pyne is taking steps to ensure that not even the sweet release of death will...
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