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The Tribal Feud Tearing Libya Apart
At an army checkpoint on the way into the Libyan city of Misrata, an angry police officer with a pistol tucked into his pants demands I give a blood sample before locking me in a trailer. For what...
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Dogmageddon: Sacrificing Virgins
Photo via Back in the day, if you wanted God to bless your crops and make them grow high to the heavens, you prayed for rain. If that didn't work, you built a temple or maybe slaughtered a goat. And...
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The Mating Rituals of the Renaissance Pleasure Fair
Photos by Jennie Ross The first thing you need to know when you go to a Renaissance fair is that you’re a mundane. The people of the fair don’t give a shit about where you DJ, the art collective you...
View ArticleBradley Manning's Trial Starts Today
On Saturday, nearly 2,000 supporters of Army Private Bradley Manning drove or took the bus from all across the country to march in defense of the soldier on the eve of the first day of his trial for...
View ArticleNothing Is Less Funny Than Scientologists Doing Comedy
All the great men of history have had their escape valves, their private passions. Einstein played the violin. Disraeli wrote romantic novels. Napoleon used to rub two ferrets covered in sulphur...
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Really, Ryan?: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Casual Acquaintances?
A few weeks ago, I celebrated the first balmy night of summer by taking a pill and going to see Frances Ha. My memory of the film is admittedly hazy, but I remember thinking at various points, This...
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Turkey Is Waging an Invisible War Against Its Dissidents
A wall of Greek riot police. Photo by Henry Langston For the past week, we’ve been watching scenes of mayhem unfold in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara, and other cities in Turkey. What started as a...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - Snipers of Aleppo
Over the last six months the FSA and the battle for Aleppo has transitioned from a full-on frontline assault into a slow-paced but still deadly sniper war. Photographer and videographer Robert King...
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The RZA and Adrian Younge Are Supreme Mutant Beings
RZA. Photo via Wikipedia One of the high points in my career as a journalist happened back in January, when I had the honor of chewing the fat with my hero and Wu-Tang Clan mastermind, the RZA. We...
View ArticleMotherboard: High Country - Part 1
Matt Ellis doesn’t smoke weed. He simply doesn’t enjoy being stoned. The all-too-familiar itch of paranoia that follows a few deep rips of pot is enough to keep him from using. But that’s not to say...
View ArticleGerald Koch Hasn't Been Accused of a Crime, but the Feds Put Him in Jail Anyway
A New York anarchist has been jailed for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs, his friends, and the legal support he provided to Occupy Wall Street. Gerald...
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The War on Weed: Still Expensive, Racist, and Failed
Photo via Flickr User Taber Andrew Bain For years, anti-drug-war advocates have been saying, over and over again, that arresting people for possessing controlled substances overcrowds prisons, wastes...
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Neither Big nor Easy: On the Death of a Dog I Should Have Loved Better
All photos courtesy of the author. When I am depressed I must write. But I am surprised to find myself depressed upon the death of my dog this past Sunday during our fishing trip on Lake Pontchartain....
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Next Disruption: Floating, Autonomous City-States
Silicon Valley's Next Disruption: Floating, Autonomous City-States
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Crush Cakes: Idris Elba
Image via Let's talk about Idris Elba. More like Idris Elbabe! I have seen this tall drink of sexy in three things: The Wire, Thor, and this one episode of Absolutely Fabulous where he played a...
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Gold Miners Are Exhuming and Trafficking Corpses in Romania
Mounds of soil where graves have been exhumed are now a common sight in Roșia Montană. Since 2004, the Romanian Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) has been illegally trafficking corpses in Roșia...
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Michael Douglas Has No Control Over His Mouth
Photo via Flickr User Joella Marano I say a lot of things I don’t actually mean to say. When I let my mouth run, I find myself implying that I can do 100 push-ups, that my favorite movie is “something...
View ArticleHere's Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's 'Kismet' Mixtape
Here's Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's 'Kismet' Mixtape
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Tom Bianchi Photographed His Gay Paradise Before It Disappeared Forever
Close your eyes for a second and imagine you are at the party of your dreams. Everyone you love and are infatuated with is around you, the music you loved in your teens is playing, and bad trips are...
View ArticleWild Things: The $wiftest Pigeon - Part 1
What is the sound of 1 million yuan flapping? While most nouveau riche happily spend their new money on shit the old money has already deemed acceptable, China's spoiled young princelings aren't...
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