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A Convicted South African Terrorist Discusses the Future of His Country
Nelson Mandela shaking the hand of his predecessor Frederik de Klerk, the last apartheid-era president of South Africa. (Photo via) Dr Renfrew Christie was jailed during the early 1980s for passing on...
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I Joined a Bunch of Gay Conversion Groups
Image via. The last few months have not been kind to the gay conversion industry. The loudest mouthpiece for the trade, Exodus International, disbanded after the ex-gay ex-president of the...
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Pope Francis Is Shockingly Good at Social Media
The Pope with a levitating child. via Flickr. Perhaps you haven’t been following the comings and goings of Pope Francis the way I have, but the pontiff is currently in Rio for the Catholic Church’s...
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How the MERS Coronavirus Could Be Spread Around the World by Pilgrims
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Al Qaeda's Somalia Cell Is Fractured and Dangerous
Members of the ubiquitous security force that keeps everything so oppressively quiet. Photos courtesy of the author. Qawdhan slouches on the floor of the wicker-frame hut across from me, his back to...
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Who Cares About the Royal Baby?
The Royal baby makes Diane Hodges want to twist and shout. Photos by Joel Balsam. My first reaction to the wall-to-wall news coverage that a couple of tax-funded billionaires—in some far away island...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Gucci Bacchae
In Euripides’s The Bacchae, Dionysus comes to the city and enchants all the women. They follow him out to the woods where wild dances take place under the trance of the god. This is Dionysus before...
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Reviewed: The Limp Bizkit Comeback Video the World Has Been Waiting for
Oh shit—the game just changed again. Limp Bizkit has emerged from a ten-year hiatus from being popular to drop the video for their pant-tightener of a comeback single, "Ready To Go," which features...
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Come Into My Head: Dear Mattel, Here Is How to Make a Goth Doll
A photo of the author during her high school years. Monster High dolls are currently one of the best-selling dolls in the world. The dolls are like Barbie’s Goth cousin—the one who buys black and...
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The English Way
Photos by Martin Parr & text by Kate Fox. I don’t read books much. I prefer my inspiration to come in the form of films, art, and photography. But I stumbled across one book, which I read cover to...
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Mississippi Police Want to Arrest the Satanists Who Turn Dead People Gay
Just over a week ago the Satanic Temple, unwavering disciples of the Prince of Darkness and aspiring adopt-a-highway participants, performed a Pink Mass over the grave of Catherine Idalette Johnston,...
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We Spoke to Defence Attorneys about Racial Profiling and Trayvon Martin
Protesters at a sit-in for Trayvon Martin in Sanford. via Flickr. The acquittal of George Zimmerman has left millions in North America with an uneasy feeling about the state of criminal justice, and...
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Donkey Bomber Kills Three US Soldiers and an Interpreter
For three days straight in Wardak Province, we went on early-morning, joint foot patrols with an American Army platoon and a squad of Afghan National Army soldiers in a valley flush with summer wheat...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - Aleppo's Child Nurse
As Assad’s troops and the Free Syrian Army continue to battle in the middle of Aleppo and Syrian doctors try to flee the country, Dar al-Shifa’a hospital serves as the only option for birthing...
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The Truth Behind the Battle for London's Housing
The eviction of Rushcroft Road. Photo by Jake Lewis. Last week, police and bailiffs descended on Brixton to evict a community of squatters. However, when they arrived on Rushcroft Road and poured...
View ArticleLines and Curves
Photos by Petra Collins & Arvida Byström More from VICE's 2013 Photo Issue: The English Way Manic Botanic Place of the Inside Out
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Filtering Out Online Porn Is a Dumb Idea
An eccentric gentleman using his right to free speech to dress up as internet porn itself. via WikiCommons. Some Conservative MP over in Winnipeg named Joy Smith—a woman with approximately zero...
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It Was an Unhappy Second Birthday for the Youngest Country On Earth
SPLA soldiers in South Sudan. Photo via South Sudan celebrated its second birthday earlier this month. But festivities for the anniversary of its independence were quiet, presumably because there was...
View ArticleArt Talk: CODA
CODA is a studio for architectural and urban research and design established by Caroline O´Donnell in New York in 2008, and now based in Ithaca, NY. Caroline is currently the Richard Meier Professor...
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