Bad Cop Blotter: Stop Sending Undercover Officers to High Schools
Remember that movie in which Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill pressured a 17-year-old into buying a dub sack then arrested him? On December 11, 2012, 17-year-old Jesse Snodgrass and a few of his fellow...
View ArticleAd Agencies Have No Idea How to Talk to Women
If you are a woman, chances are you’re not also a creative director at an advertising agency. Good for you! It is one of the most useless corporate jobs ever created. Women make up just 3 percent of...
View ArticleTen Years of Mind-Bending Installations with United Visual Artists
Ten Years of Mind-Bending Installations with United Visual Artists
View ArticleThe US Government Now Supplies Cannabis Extracts to Epileptic Kids
Very quietly, the federal government has begun approving—and even subsidizing—what they are calling the Investigational New Drug Program, a series of studies of cannabidiol (CBD) for children with...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Travel: Kingdom of the Little People
In a land far, far away, love flourishes in a kingdom quite unlike any other. In mushroom-shaped homes and old dormitories, a community of dwarfs—all less than 51 inches tall—can be found singing,...
View ArticleVICE Meets: Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney is easily one of the most trenchant political satirists in the history of comedy. Best known as Richard Pryor's writing partner and best friend, and a regular guest on the iconic...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast: Talking to Journalist Melissa Gira Grant About Sex Work
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Melissa Gira Grant, an independent journalist who has been writing and reporting on the sex...
View ArticleThe Homeless Forest Dwellers of New Jersey
Steve Brigham “Welcome to the zoo,” a man snarls as I walk down a dirt track in Lakewood, New Jersey, into an encampment in the forest known simply as Tent City. It’s two in the afternoon, and he’s...
View ArticleThe KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas
A bloodied Billy Roper. Photo courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center Residents of Harrison, in Boone County, Arkansas, want to move beyond the town's racist history. The trouble is, the Knights of...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Here's Mobb Deep's Newest Single, 'Say Something'
Amid all the new-wave molly rappers and swag babies, it's a rare treat to come across something reminiscent of rap's golden era, i.e., early-90s New York. Luckily, Mobb Deep practically pioneered (or...
View ArticleChef Keith Has Turned Trolling Daytime TV Hosts into an Art Form
During one of my recent, daily adventures inside the internet’s ever-growing catalog of viral YouTube videos (I live a hard life), I stumbled across a montage of a chef named Keith, who clearly had no...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Cutting Through the Bullshit Surrounding Flight MH370
A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 similar to the one that disappeared with 239 people on board. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Sometimes, though not very often, planes crash. But in a post-9/11 world, that...
View ArticleVICE News: Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor - Part 2
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops,...
View ArticleStressful Modern Life Is Giving Us All Hunger Rage
Illustration by Luke Routledge You know "hanger," that raging storm cloud of grumpiness that rolls over you when you haven’t eaten in a long time? The word—a portmanteau of hunger and anger—is now...
View ArticleMembers of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department Share Information with Stratfor
Screencap via the author. Since WikiLeaks first published 5 million hacked Stratfor emails in 2012 (a cybercrime clusterfuck that has already led to the imprisonment of Jeremy Hammond), the private...
View ArticleWhy Won’t the Australian Government Let Us Hunt UFOs with Lasers?
Photo courtesy of iStock I probably don’t need to tell you this, but when you’re trying to communicate with aliens, lasers are really helpful. According to UFO chasers like Australia’s Peter Slattery,...
View ArticleThe Book Report : Ghosts Make Better Friends, A Book Report on 'Wait Till...
Photo by Flickr user Steve Jurvetson The Book Report is a series that promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Catch evenings of live, in-person...
View ArticleRepublicans Have Finally Turned Against the Drug War
Former sheriff Howard Wooldridge uses CPAC to evangelize against the War on Drugs. When the Conservative Political Action Conference came to its rapturous close this weekend, I left the Gaylord...
View ArticleHow the World Wide Web Became the Internet's Killer App
How the World Wide Web Became the Internet's Killer App
View ArticleRemembering Charles Bukowski Through One of His Lovers
Linda King and Charles Bukowski. Yes, she said, she is the one who taught Charles Bukowski how to perform oral sex. Linda King still remembers the conversation; Bukowski said he'd never done that,...
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