The NSA's Data Collection Habits Are Trickling Down to Cops
The NSA's Data Collection Habits Are Trickling Down to Cops
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A Few Impressions: The Parallel Structure in 'Strangers on a Train'
Image by Courtney Nicholas One of the strategies that Patricia Highsmith employs in her first novel, Strangers on a Train, is to bounce the narrative between two characters. As the title suggests,...
View ArticleItalica: The VICE Guide to the Venice Biennale - Part 1
Every two years since 1895, Venice has hosted the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Over a period of six months, the Biennale welcomes over 375,000 visitors and raises millions...
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Uncovering the "Truth" Among the Conspiracy Theorists at the 2013 Bilderberg...
Every year, the Bilderberg Group—a collection of some of the world's most powerful people—gets together to discuss how to keep on being powerful. Now, considering that the past couple weeks haven't...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Metro
For the past couple of months, in celebration of last week's release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we have been featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip...
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Komp-laintDept.Nic Refn and Ryan Gosling Driven… to Distraction
This is one fucked-up movie. There's no other way to say it, really. As fans of director Nicolas Refn and his alter ego Ryan Gosling have surely heard by now, their follow-up to Drive was pretty badly...
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Neither Big nor Easy: My Elementary Schoolers Are Terrific Music Critics
The author's students pose with a Michael Jackson impersonator, the rapper Lucky Lou, and their finished book. Since Katrina hit New Orleans, I’ve been teaching English after school in some truly...
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Chunklet to Go Go : Metal's Lost Survivalist Endeavors of the 1990s - Volume...
It's common knowledge that several forms of metal weathered a serious beating at the hands of alt-you-name-it in the early-to-mid-90s, with hair-metal forced into a well-deserved dirt-nap. Hair metal...
View ArticleWild Things: The Dog Hunter
In the close-knit world of dog hunting, Tom Varney is a legend, and he has the DVD sales to prove it. Tom is a former psychotic criminal who later found God and devoted himself to serving his fellow...
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The VICE Reader: The Black Bear
All sketches by Olivia Hinds Wistar Murray is a writer from Charlottesville, Virginia. She graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in fiction, where she was a 2010 winner of the Henfield...
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Big Booties Don't Get into Rap Videos Without These Guys
Rap music videos have warped my perception of the world. After years of watching clips like "Big Pimpin'" and "Tip Drill," my thoughts have become infested with half-naked girls who tug around...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Man Have Sex with Girl in Cave: Dissecting ‘Gigolos’
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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Meet the Lawyer Representing Osama bin Laden's Son-in-Law
Stanley Cohen (right) in Gaza with one of the two disputed prime ministers of the Palestinian National Authority, Ismail Haniyeh. Photo by Peter Spagnuolo via The term "polarizing figure" has become a...
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What Are These Freaks Reading?
When summertime rolls around, all I want to do is stay inside and try not to sweat. I guess that’s why summer reading lists are a thing. I don’t keep a running list, though. I just have stacks of...
View ArticleVICE News: The Battle of Taksim Square
This footage was shot by Robert King the morning of Tuesday, June 11, when Taksim Square in Istanbul was being evicted by the riot police. The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had said he...
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Hiding Your Calls and Texts from Big Brother
The recent news reports that the US government can pull whatever data it wants from the internet and has free rein to peek at your phone records might have been shocking initially, but really they...
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There's a Video Game Church (and It's Totally Lame)
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete The E3 video game expo is a yearly celebration of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. It’s also super fucking boring. As the largest video game trade expo in the...
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Our TV Show Is Coming Back for Round 2
Good afternoon, ladies and germs. We'd just like to borrow your attentions for a moment to let you know our TV show, VICE, has been renewed for a second season on HBO. It took a lot of work, some of...
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VICE Loves Magnum: There's More to Stuart Franklin Than the Most Famous Photo...
NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Riots. 1985. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances are you're familiar with its images, be they Robert...
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New Cocaine Routes Are Ruining West Africa
Cocaine wraps seized by police in Benin. Image via At the end of June, the United Nations held its annual International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Yury Fedotov, head of the UN's...
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