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This Week in Racism: Nick Cannon Wore Whiteface and I Cried
Photo via Instagram Welcome to a White People Party Music edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being...
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Assault Rifles for Christ
All Photos by Giles Clarke “The pacifists love to quote ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ while ignoring all the Bible verses approving of capital punishment,” wrote Pastor John Koletas, “Does that mean we...
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The National's Matt Berninger and His Brother Taught Me How to Be a Brother
Tom and Matt Berninger. Photo by Taylor Girouard My house was overrun with people when I sat down to watch an advance copy of the National’s new documentary, Mistaken for Strangers. I live with five...
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Relationship Advice from Fat Tony
Photo by David Williams I sat across from rapper Fat Tony in a small bedroom nestled in the back of a nearly empty house in Austin, Texas. The room was bare, except for a bunch of cardboard boxes...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Caprock Academy The incident: A girl shaved her head to support her friend with cancer. The...
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This Guy Runs the World’s #1 Tim Horton’s Fansite
Screenshot of an actual post on Inside Timmie's. The internet is full of bizarre surprises that are so outlandish, they’re hard to take seriously. Think: Most WorldStarHipHop fight videos, or the...
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Nighttime of the City
Illustrations by Domitille Collardey. Story © Robert Coover, published with permission. Robert Coover is a brilliant fiction writer who's best known for the classic, The Public Burning. His new novel,...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Stop Sending Your T-Shirts to Africa
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent: Breaking...
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306 Academics Are Concerned About Canada’s Sex Work Laws
Image of Valerie Scott, via Wikimedia Commons. Prostitution and sex trafficking are keeping headline writers in Canada busy these days (see: here, here, here, here, and here). This week, CBC has been...
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Are Canada and Russia in a New Cold War?
With Harper agitating for sanctions on Russia, and a battle for arctic sovereignty looming, could this be the start of a new cold war? Photo via Facebook. A top Russian deputy in the Duma says Canada...
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French Teenagers Hate Each Other, and It's All Kim Kardashian's Fault
Kim Kardashian is considered the ultimate role model for French Muslim girls who like dating black boys. Paris is burning, and it's all Kim Kardashian's fault. OK, that's an overstatement, but the...
View ArticleRamallah Is a Paradise
Last year, I moved to the Palestinian city of Ramallah to work as a photographer for a newspaper. Coming from Brooklyn, I found the city to be equal parts friendly and odd. In my memories, the scents...
View ArticlePredictions Are Stupid, but Russia Is About to Invade Ukraine
Predicting world events is hard. But barring a major change in the next 24 hours or so, I think we might, in theory, be close to—ah, screw it. Russian troops are about to march on the rest of Ukraine,...
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Women Can Stop Rape By Staying Sober According to Some Useless Lawyer
Trigger warning for sexual assault This week, one of my favourite radio hosts, Jian Ghomeshi, thought it prudent to host a segment debating rape culture. He devoted valuable airtime to a woman who has...
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In Defense of the American Bro
Via Flickr user David Shankbone There are certain villains of society whose relative merits no one will defend. Anyone standing up for child molesters, serial killers, or members of the Bush...
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How Would You Improve Internet Porn?
(Photo by Isabelle Andarakis) Porn isn't a hard sell. In fact, it's pretty much completely self-sustaining, in that there aren't many other avenues you take when you're planning to spend some time...
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We Spoke to Political Pop Star Ruslana About Leading the Protests in Ukraine
If you don’t know the Ukrainian pop star Ruslana Lyzhychko, you should. She’s known as the Britney Spears of Eastern Europe, except she doesn’t shave her head for attention, she leads political...
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'Go Down Death' Is a Frightening Mainline into the Subconscious
An off-beat and beguiling journey into the dark corners of the mind, Go Down Death is something you haven’t seen before. It was shot on black-and-white Super 16mm and filmed in 14 days in an old...
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2013 Was a Big Year for Executions
A protest for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran, San Francisco, June 2010 (image via) I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Amnesty International released its...
View ArticleGuinea Bans Bat Meat to Stop the Spread of Ebola
Guinea Bans Bat Meat to Stop the Spread of Ebola
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