Is America Ready to Finally Elect Presidents by Popular Vote?
Bizarre 2012 electoral college proceedings in Massachusetts. Photo via Flickr user Governor Deval Patrick US presidential elections are frequently the butt of jokes worldwide, and deservedly so....
View ArticleVICE Premiere: 'The Cost of Living' by the Revelations
The Cost of Living is the fourth studio album from Brooklyn soul group the Revelations, set to be released on April 29. The album has a classic Southern sound with an urban take on hard times....
View ArticleVenezuelan Protesters Replaced Judas With Maduro and Burned Him on Easter
Venezuelan Protesters Replaced Judas With Maduro and Burned Him on Easter
View ArticleCanada’s Domestic Violence Courts Didn’t Work in the 90s and They Don’t Work...
Photo via WikiMedia Commons. It’s the definition of he said/she said. At Ottawa’s specialized domestic violence court at the Ottawa Courthouse, Judge Neil Kozloff heard the case of Ian, a man accused...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Is Obama Finally About to Use His Pardon Powers to Set...
Photo via Flickr user Beth Rankin Last week, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of a man who had spent three extra years behind bars because of a typo. This was a nice use of the...
View ArticleDear VICE - Old People Read Your Magazine Too
Pamela Stewart, an old who reads VICE. Photo courtesy of the author Here's a letter from an old person who reads VICE. We don't typically publish stuff like this, but there are a few adorable "old...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: 'Drift' by Prism House
If you’re looking for something to pair nicely with the dopamine that’s been caking your neuron receptors since you ate that space cake yesterday afternoon, you should listen to Prism House’s latest...
View ArticleEx-Soldiers Are Being Given MDMA to Help Them Forget About War
Tony Macie If hanging out with a bunch of strangers in a foreign country, shooting at other strangers for a living wasn’t damaging enough, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is always there to...
View ArticleI Interviewed Sex Therapist Dr. Suzy at Her 22nd Wedding Anniversary Party
Dr. Suzy and her husband, Captain Max. Photos by Elizabeth Vazquez. Dr. Susan Block, better known as Dr. Suzy, is a sex therapist based in Los Angeles. She has been in the business of sex for several...
View ArticleVICE News: Violence and Private Security in South Africa
The high walls, electric fences, and private security guards surrounding South Africa's residences and businesses are as inherent to the country's landscape as Table Mountain is to Cape Town. And with...
View ArticleGagnef Is a Paradise
Three hours north of Stockholm lies Gagnef, a city mostly populated by cattle, red-painted houses, and forests. In July every year however, this calm farmers’ hideout doubles its inhabitants as 1,500...
View ArticleHow Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack
How Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack
View ArticleCars Should Be Safe, Legal, and Rare
A traffic jam in Kuala Lumpur. Photo via Flickr user Michael Loke The look on the receptionist's face told me I had said something wrong. It was a maternal expression, like that of an elderly woman...
View ArticleThe Toxic Uzbek Town and Its Museum of Banned Soviet Art
Chaikhana with the Portrait of Lenin by Alexander Volkov, one of the banned pieces of Soviet art now housed in the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan Making our way out of Uzbekistan’s...
View ArticleI Ate Live Food from the Pet Store for a Week
Photos by Steven Smith Somewhere along the great corporate coastline of the North American highway system a truck driver is hitching-up his pants and sauntering across the asphalt to his rig. Behind...
View ArticleThe Chinese Are Buying Up London
I recently came across two little-known PR artifacts that were produced a few years back by the Newham London Borough Council. The overcrowded, ethnically diverse east London borough is home to more...
View ArticleHanging With a Vancouver Meth Dealer
In my mind, Vancouver’s downtown east side has always spoken for a suffering that is particularly—even if not entirely—female. When the neighborhood comes up in conversation, I mentally lock in on...
View ArticleYou Won’t Be Drinking Powdered Alcohol Anytime Soon
You Won’t Be Drinking Powdered Alcohol Anytime Soon
View ArticleVICE News: London's Holy Turf Wars
Over the last year, a quasi-religious turf war has sprung up on the streets of London. Young, radicalized Muslim patrols are enforcing Sharia law in the capital. In reaction, far-right Christian...
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