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The Glue-Sniffing Street Kids of Somaliland
Mohamed poses for the camera while Ibrahim takes a hit from a glue bottle behind him. On an ordinary night, after the sun sets over Hargeisa, Somaliland, Mohamed packs up his shoe-shine kit and heads...
View ArticleThe Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear
The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear
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The Terrible Legacy of...: How 'Friends' Created a Generation of Neurotic,...
Illustrations: Sam Taylor Twenty years ago last month, a new sitcom debuted. Originally titled Insomnia Cafe, it was supposed to catch some of the heat that Seinfeld had generated, some of that...
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Here Be Dragons: Let's Face It: the Web Is a Worse Place for Women Than It Is...
Image by Cei Willis Amy Harmon isn't stupid. When the NYT correspondent wrote a feature explaining that a Hawaiian campaign to ban GM crops was about as scientific as the plot of Santa Claus Conquers...
View ArticleBelfast Is a Paradise
Belfast, the city where I rest my head, is the home of the joyrider and the petrol bomb. It's a place where rioting has its very own season. It was once the terrorism capital of the world. Belfast can...
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The Passion of the Prancing Elites
All photos by Aubrey Edwards No one invited the Prancing Elites to dance at the basketball game. They are not part of the halftime show taking place at center court. Their names are not listed in the...
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Please Kill Me: Moe Tucker - Snapshots of the Velvet Underground
Art by Brian Wallsby Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An average high school girl from Levittown, Long Island, her life was saved by rock...
View ArticleRussian MMA Hero Fedor Emelianenko and the Sochi Olympics
Russian MMA Hero Fedor Emelianenko and the Sochi Olympics
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Bad Cop Blotter: We Need to Stop Trusting the Police
A memorial for Kelly Thomas, who died of injuries sustained during a beating from cops. The officers involved were recently acquitted by a jury. Photo via Flickr user Amber Stephens Last Monday, a...
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Ground Zero: Syria's Illegal Oil Wells
news Black-gold BLues The hazards and horrors of the makeshift oil industry in rebel-held syria By Jean-René Augé-Napoli Smoke-spewing makeshift refineries dot the desert landscape around Deir...
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The Painful Exile to Brooklyn
Image by Alex Cook. Photo by Melanie Dunea. I, like all exiles, live in the aftermath of my own life, but unlike other exiles, I have to go back every day on the subway. It's a painful path. I was the...
View ArticleThe Best Drummers You've Never Heard of Are Shredding in a Church in Flint,...
The Best Drummers You've Never Heard of Are Shredding in a Church in Flint, Michigan
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Millions of Cubans May Lose Their Life Savings This Year
All photos by the author "Fucking cops in Cuba are always busting everybody’s balls." A man mutters this to me in perfect English as I walk down the once-elegant Calle 23 in downtown Havana. He is the...
View ArticleVICE Special: Japan Won't Let Filmmakers Use the Yakuza for Movie Plots Anymore
Media Works, the film production company founded by Hoyu Yamamoto, specializes in producing Yakuza movies, almost all of which are based on true events. They produce dozens of movies a year, making up...
View ArticleThe Canadian Government Was Forced to Release Documents About Child Abuse
A school project put together by one of the survivors of the St. Anne's Residential School. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that the Canadian Federal Government has to disclose...
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I Ate Horse Ass in Kazakhstan
Astana. All photos by the author, aside from the one of the horse ass. Before Kazakhstan’s ascent to the global stage as an oil-rich, ambitious, modernizing player, it was one of the world’s most...
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Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun
What began as a workplace prank involving two plumbers drawing penises on copies of their workmates newspapers has become a Facebook sensation. The Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun Facebook page has...
View ArticleIs This the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government Has Ever Sent?
Is This the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government Has Ever Sent?
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A Babysitter in Virginia Tattooed the Kids He Was Meant to Be Watching
image via Last month, three days before Christmas, Virginia couple Melissa Delp and Daniel Janney left Delp's two kids, both under 13, with their friend Alexander Edwards for the night. Then there's a...
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Tropic of El Jefe
All illustrations by Jonny Negron Everywhere we went in Cuba, men tried to sell Wes cigars. They approached us on the sidewalks, at cafés, and while we were riding in their cars. The come-on was...
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