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The BC Supreme Court Has Ordered Health Canada to Let Addicts Access...
Image via Flickr user stevendepolo. Despite a major setback last November, a small group of entrenched drug users in Vancouver recently secured a legal victory against the federal government. Last...
View ArticleVICE News: PTSD from Gang Violence in LA
There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving...
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How Many Crystals Do You Have Left Inside You?
Crystal Eaters, the latest novel by Shane Jones, is not about people jacked on crystal meth, but instead is itself a form of drugs. “I don’t do drugs, I am drugs,” Salvador Dali famously said. This is...
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I Didn't Even Take My Purse
Photo by Tim Freccia The events that led to the recent instability of South Sudan culminated on December 14 and 15, 2013. At the December 14 meeting of the SPLM’s National Liberation Council (NLC),...
View ArticleWhy Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
Why Was the FBI Investigating Michael Hastings’ Reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
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Here Be Dragons: Don't Blame Slender Man for the Schoolgirl Stabbing
A chalk drawing of Slender Man (Photo via) On Saturday morning, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser—two 12-year-old girls—lured a classmate into the woods near their homes and stabbed her 19 times. Or, as...
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South Korea’s Not-So-Subtle Racist Hiring Practices
Illustration by Jonny Negron Every year, hundreds of young English speakers drift into East Asia, looking to while away a couple of aimless years between college and the inevitable round of grad...
View ArticleScientists Are Not Cool with the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Scientists Are Not Cool with the Northern Gateway Pipeline
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A Few Impressions: James Franco Speaks with Frank Bidart About Poetry
Earlier this spring we asked James Franco to interview the poet Frank Bidart for our June fiction issue, which will be in stores Friday and online next Monday. Unfortunately, great work is cut from...
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The Navy’s Elite Flying Squad Is Obsessed with Porn
An internal Navy investigation blames Capt. Gregory McWherter for encouraging sexual harassment and general lewdness among the Blue Angels, the Navy's iconic stunt pilot squad. Photo courtesy of the...
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Photo Lab Workers See Some Crazy Shit
All illustrations by Drew Shannon. The online takeover of photo-sharing sites and the fact that every phone can now act as an album for everything from prom pics to creepy Snapchat screenshots has...
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Maureen Dowd Freaked Out on Weed Chocolate Because She's Stupid
Maureen Dowd, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1999, might have asked a few more questions before biting into that edible. Photo by Bob Daemmrich/Corbis Many people have overdone it on...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd - Season 1: Keith Hufnagel - Part 1
Part one of the series is a look back at Keith’s formative days in early 90s New York City. Before HUF, and before everyone and their grandma had a pair of weed socks, he was just a kid, busting his...
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Canada’s New Prostitution Bill Is Far from Perfect
Justice minister Peter MacKay called the bill a "uniquely Canadian response." Image via WikiMedia Commons. It was in 2007 that a case challenging Canada's prostitution laws as unconstitutional was...
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Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commission...
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I Went to a Support Group for British Alien Abductees
Various objects that had supposedly been in the presence of extraterrestrials Last Saturday a bunch of alien abductees, Infowars subscribers, and new age knitwear enthusiasts assembled in a room in...
View ArticleSigns from the Future
I was working on a blog post discussing how frightening some furturist predictions about technology can be when I found myself thinking about the header image more than the text. I am a visual...
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Canada's ISPs Are Finally Revealing How Often the Government Requests User Data
Image via Flickr user Beraldo Leal. Two Canadian telecommunications companies—Rogers Communications and TekSavvy Solutions—are the country's first to disclose the number of requests they receive from...
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