Bad Cop Blotter: Legalize Heroin!
Photo via Flickr user Karen Neoh When people talk about ending the drug war, they usually mean “no one should go to prison for marijuana.” There's no doubt the public has shifted its collective...
View ArticleBangkok Remains a City in Crisis
Photos by Adam Gnych On the eve of Thailand’s general election, a firefight broke out between government supporters and anti-government protesters at an intersection not far from the city center. It...
View ArticleMossless in America: Morgan Ashcom
Mossless in America is a new column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by...
View ArticleQuestion Of The Day: What Actually Is A “King Hit”?
Image via For the past few months everyone have been talking about the king hit, or coward punch if you want to be all PC about it. But after all these countless conversations we realised that for all...
View ArticleSeeking Asylum isn't Illegal but Australia's Border Policy May Be
Image via The Australian government’s tough asylum seeker policy, particularly the forcing of boats back to Indonesia, has had everyone talking; everyone except the Australian government that is....
View ArticleVICE Special: Apocalypse, Man - Part 4
In the fourth part of Apocalypse, Man, we talk about climate change, industrial farming, GMOs, Monsanto, and finding a new way to live in the face of the end of the world. Warning: Contains images...
View ArticleCyborg Cockroaches Can Now Generate Their Own Power
Cyborg Cockroaches Can Now Generate Their Own Power
View ArticleSyria's Christian Minority Are Fighting Back
All photos by: Achilleas Zavallis. A volunteer from one of the Christian militias in the Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria The security office is so neatly tucked away into a small side street that...
View ArticleHow to Get Laid at Fashion Week
Getting laid at fashion week is remarkably easy. Everyone is exhausted, hungover, or still drunk and in the middle of a bender. You can see it in their faces. People are shattered and have lost all...
View ArticleVICE News: Warlords of Tripoli - Part 2
The war in Syria is dragging neighboring Lebanon to the edge of the abyss, and nowhere is the growing chaos more stark than in the second city of Tripoli. Sunni militants aligned with the Syrian...
View ArticleThis Guy Wants to Help You Download Your Brain
Image via Ever wanted to download a copy of your own brain? Say you went through a serious car crash, for example—wouldn't it be nice to take out your damaged brain and replace it with a replica you'd...
View ArticleGoodbye Great Barrier Reef, Hello Dredge Dumping
Image via Imagine you work for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Your job, as quoted from the website, is “to ensure all human uses of the Park are ecologically sustainable and that the...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Light Touch
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master. I didn’t know Philip Seymour Hoffman personally. I only met him a few times over the years. The first was in the early 2000s in a bathroom at the MCC Theater,...
View ArticleArguing About Nothing
A few months ago, I flew to Nashville, Tennessee, to watch the founders of the Sunday Assembly establish one of their “atheist churches” there. While on the trip I was reading about congregational...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Style from Shakira's "Can't Remember to Forget You"
What I Learned About Style from Shakira's "Can't Remember to Forget You"
View ArticleMy Brooklyn Neighbors Hate Me
Crown Heights via. Last week, I wrote about my painful transition to living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I admit it: I overreacted. Crown Heights is not that bad a place. Now that the entire...
View ArticleThird-Hand Smoke Could Kill You
Photo via Flickr User DCist UC Riverside published the results of an experiment last week, concluding that "third-hand smoke," i.e. that rich, burnt oatmeal smell emanating from grandpa's sweater, is...
View ArticleThe Internet Black Market That Brings Online Browsing to Life
“I do not know what I am saying!” Internet Dude screamed out tweets as he walked through the rows of market sellers, from the URL Lottery to Firefox tattoos. This past weekend was the biggest net-nerd...
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