That Amazing App You Thought of Won't Make You Rich
That Amazing App You Thought of Won't Make You Rich
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Who Is the Biggest Advertising Asshole of the Month?
January isn’t even half over, but consumers worldwide have already been assaulted by a cavalcade of commercials, magazine ads, and tweets that assume they are all a bunch of halfwits. This is nothing...
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Fighting Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws with Gay Russian Icon Portraits
Russian romance. Photos courtesy of Damian Siqueiros. As you’ve probably already gathered from being an informed human being—and from our brand new documentary “Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia”—the...
View ArticleThe DEA Struck a Deal with the World's Tech-Savviest Drug Cartel for 12 Years
The DEA Struck a Deal with the World's Tech-Savviest Drug Cartel for 12 Years
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I Got Buzzed On ‘Cold Tea’ in Toronto’s Chinatown
Above, Toronto's Chinatown's off-the-menu tea and Chinese food. Photo by the author. In a previous lifetime, I was a line cook in Toronto. I had just moved there from Austin, Texas to work in a...
View ArticleVICE News: Young and Gay in Putin's Russia - Part 3
When Russian President Vladimir Putin banned gay "propaganda" last June, Russia's LGBT community went from being a stigmatized fringe group to full-blown enemies of the state. Homophobia becoming...
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Fish Are Finally Returning to the Shrunken Aral Sea
We'd been driving for nearly an hour before we finally stopped. The off-road journey was rough, but it helped to put the surroundings in perspective. Magzhan Tursinbayev, an ecologist and my ride for...
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Busboy
Blake Bailey’s autobiography, The Splendid Things We Planned, will be published by W. W. Norton & Company in March. We suspect it is the book he has been writing for three decades. Just as the...
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Unpaid Interns with Guns
Auxiliary officers, as volunteer NYPD cops are known, have some of the responsibilities of law enforcement officers but none of the pay.Photo via Flickr user André Gustavo Stumpf In Oakland,...
View ArticleThe Warming World Intensified Africa's Civil Wars
The Warming World Intensified Africa's Civil Wars
View ArticleLondon Is a Ghost Town
Christmas is the only day of the year when London is silent. Everything is closed and there's no public transport. Other than a bunch of tourists gawking around Big Ben, the streets are basically...
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I Have a Chinese Banknote that Everyone in China is Scared Of
I have a very special Chinese banknote. It’s only worth ten Yuan, but it might be the most precious object I own. The front of the note shows a drawing of the former leader of the Communist Party, Mao...
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FOX Bankrupted a 23-Year Old Canadian Pirate for Streaming The Simpsons
Via Motherboard/the Simpsons. On January 5th, in a new episode of The Simpsons, everyone’s favourite yellow-skinned family tackled the issue of copyright extremism. Homer was dismayed because he was...
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The Case Against Boycotting the Sochi Olympics
Our documentary Young and Gay in Putin's Russia premiered on VICE.com this week Last June, the Russian government looked around for a new scapegoat and duly passed a law that banned the “promotion of...
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Why Doesn’t the US Execute People by Firing Squad?
Photo via the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Flickr account, image property of the Shoreline Historical Museum Let’s say, hypothetically, that you sentence someone to death. Let’s put aside...
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Egypt's Prisons Are Full to the Brim with Activists and Journalists
A pro-Morsi protester is arrested outside the courthouse during his trial last week. Over the past three Fridays, Egyptian police have arrested over 700 protesters and killed another 27, according to...
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This Guy Wants to Trip You Into a Parallel Reality Via Bagpipes
Andy Letcher looks like a pastiche of English folklore and history. Waxy-faced and cheery-eyed, Letcher sports broad-brimmed hats, clothes that look like they’ve been in mothballs for the better part...
View ArticleEvery Woman: Every Woman: Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper (Trailer)
Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico—a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the...
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