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Goodbye, Alexander Shulgin
Photo of Shulgin's laboratory by the author On Monday at 5 PM Alexander Shulgin died in his Lafayette, California, home surrounded by friends and family. He is survived by his wife and collaborator,...
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Ground Zero: The Destruction of Daraa - Part 2
In March 2011, Syrian citizens began protesting oppressive government rule in the city of Daraa. Assadi government troops fired on the protesters, resulting in the beginning of the war in Syria. Three...
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The VICE Reader: The Con-Artist Wing of the Democratic Party
Former US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (left) yucking it up at a meeting of global elites in 2009. Photo via Flickr user IMF The most consequential event of this young century has been the...
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Iceland Is About to Get Its First Mosque
Images courtesy of the Muslim Association of Iceland Last year, the Reykjavík City Council granted a plot for Iceland’s first mosque in the city center, and the Muslim Association of Iceland said...
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Gentrification Comes to LA’s Skid Row, and the Homeless Get the Shaft
A street corner in downtown Los Angeles. Photo via Flickr user Toni Heim One of the worst things about being rich is sometimes you're forced to interact with the poor. When not in a sitting in...
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The George W. Bush Museum Is Just as Infuriating as You Think It Is
George W. Bush is history’s greatest monster you’d like to have a beer with. He’s a fun-loving, DUI-acquiring, shit-kicking everyman like you—a self-defined cowboy who slurred his way through Yale and...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Slomo'
At the start of the documentary Slomo, Dr. John Kitchin is frustrated. The neurologist realizes that his life is just a series of busy workdays leading up to an inevitable death. Being a doctor for...
View ArticleWhy Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
Why Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
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How Many Crystals Do You Have Left Inside You?
Crystal Eaters, the latest novel by Shane Jones, is not about people jacked on crystal meth, but instead is itself a form of drugs. “I don’t do drugs, I am drugs,” Salvador Dali famously said. This is...
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Lasering Tats Is Big Business
Photo courtesy of Phil Marandola Across the United States, as you read this, people are getting ink needled onto their skin. More than a fifth of all Americans have tattoos, there are tens of...
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This Is How Europe Takes Drugs in 2014
Photo by Patrick D Bortz The 2014 European Drug Report came out last week and told us exactly what we already knew: that Europeans are very fond of drugs. For better or worse, the Old Continent has...
View ArticleVICE News: PTSD from Gang Violence in LA
There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving...
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The Traditional Costumes of Peasant Women in Germany and Alsace
Marie Meier, Schaumburg Traditional costumes have virtually disappeared from our daily lives, but until the 1950s, this kind of attire was very common across Europe. The traditional costumes served as...
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The VICE Reader: If You're Going to Read Plays, Read Annie Baker's
Photo courtesy Annie Baker VICE fiction editor Amie Barrodale recently told me to read The Vermont Plays by Annie Baker. I had never heard of Annie Baker, and at first I didn’t read it. Two weeks...
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South Korea’s Not-So-Subtle Racist Hiring Practices
Illustration by Jonny Negron Every year, hundreds of young English speakers drift into East Asia, looking to while away a couple of aimless years between college and the inevitable round of grad...
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I Didn't Even Take My Purse
Photo by Tim Freccia The events that led to the recent instability of South Sudan culminated on December 14 and 15, 2013. At the December 14 meeting of the SPLM’s National Liberation Council (NLC),...
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Here Be Dragons: Don't Blame Slender Man for the Schoolgirl Stabbing
A chalk drawing of Slender Man. Photo via Wikimedia Commons On Saturday morning, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser—two 12-year-old girls—lured a classmate into the woods near their homes in Waukesha,...
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