What the Hell Is Transnistria, and Is Russia About to Invade It?
What the Hell Is Transnistria, and Is Russia About to Invade It?
View ArticleVICE News: The Devil Tried to Divide Us - Part 5
The Central African Republic's capital of Bangui has seen its Muslim population drop from 130,000 to under 1,000 during the past few months. Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed,...
View ArticlePakistani Rapper Adil Omar Is Fighting Against His Home Country's Ban on YouTube
Pakistani Rapper Adil Omar Is Fighting Against His Home Country's Ban on YouTube
View ArticleAmerica’s Show Rabbits and the People Who Love Them
I’m a British photographer and rabbit lover. When I moved to New York City in 2011 for work, I didn’t get homesick, but I really missed my pet rabbit in London. To remedy this, I decided to visit some...
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Komp-LaintDept.Self-Help: the Enemy Within
Lydia Lunch and Marty Nation in Richard Kern's Fingered. Photo courtesy of Richard Kern "I twist, you shout." That's just one memorable line from a woman who practically breathed them, fueled by the...
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I Dumpster-Dived with a Bunch of Freegans
Look at that haul. All photos by the author So there I was, groping around in a pile of trash in the middle of the night. People stared at the spectacle of a dozen dumpster divers carrying...
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Black Magic in the Central African Republic
Black magic gri-gri bracelets The crisis in the Central African Republic has now been going on for more than a year, with violence between Christian and Muslim militias sparking very real fears of a...
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The PQ Is In Big Trouble
Pauline and her merry band of PQ supporters have had a terrible month. via WikiCommons. Parti Québécois operatives probably woke up this morning feeling pretty queasy, because their latest numbers are...
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The Canadian Government Has Further Softened Access to Information Privileges
Image via Pixabay user, Jodylehigh. In a decision handed down earlier this month, the Federal Court of Canada ruled against Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault, when it decided that the...
View ArticleFriday Live!: Strangers on an Awkward Date: Livestream Highlights
On Friday, we got two strangers to have an awkward first date in the apartment above our London pub, the Old Blue Last. We livestreamed the date—which lasted three hours—on our website. They didn't...
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A Brief History of Furious People Attacking Politicians with Food
Ukrainians protesting the Russian media's selective coverage of the crisis in Crimea (Image by Ilya Varlamov) Food isn’t just for eating. Just ask the suburban teenagers who use Mentos to make bottle...
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Will Egypt's Mass Death Sentence Provoke More Violence?
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie (front, with the white beard and glasses) and 47 other defendants stand behind bars during the trial of Brotherhood members at a Cairo courtroom on March 6,...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the 'Only Camera to Come Back from the Moon'
The Mystery of the 'Only Camera to Come Back from the Moon'
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The Arab Spring Was Just a Translation Mistake
Image via Wikimedia Commons From the all-out civil war in Syria to the internet restrictions in Turkey and the return of military rule in Egypt, the revolutionary youth of the Arab Spring seem to be...
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Will 'Smart Drugs' Really Make Us Smarter, or Just Ruin Our Lives?
Image by Alex Horne It’s not exactly news that people do drugs in college. But in recent years there’s been a flurry of reports from both the UK and here in the US that suggest students are...
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Social Media Isn't a Threat to the Turkish Government
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on TV. Photo by Ekin Özbiçer It was 11P M on a Thursday night in Yeniköy, a neighborhood in the northern part of Istanbul. My wife and I sat in our living...
View ArticleHacker Artist Glitchr Makes Art By Breaking Facebook
Hacker Artist Glitchr Makes Art By Breaking Facebook
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The LAPD Is Arresting Venice Hippies for Having Drum Circles
For Los Angeles locals, Venice has always been a cheery, dirty microcosm daycation. The beach is filled with decades-old locals who are mostly leathery hippies, peacefully maintaining it as their own,...
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The Internet Is Overwhelming, so Photograph It
541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/26/06, 2006, detail of 2000 machine c-prints, each 4inch x 6inch by Penelope Umbrico (courtesy of the artist) On good days, I assume that reality...
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Neil Winokur's New York
Nobody I talk to under the age of 40 knows the work of Neil Winokur. This seems odd in light of the 68-year-old photographer’s achievements: His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art,...
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