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The Burmese Muslims Who Are Refugees in Their Own Country
Internally displaced persons in the gymnasium that has become their home in the "district playground" IDP camp. Last month, United Nations human rights worker Tomas Quintana was set upon by a mob as...
View ArticleRomanian Protesters Still Don't Want Gold Companies to Blow Up Their Mountains
Photos by Mircea Topoleanu, Cristian Munteanu, and Radu Ciocan Since the beginning of this month, tens of thousands of Romanians have been regularly protesting plans to destroy four of the country's...
View ArticleFrom Guns to Drums: Pedro Reyes Turns Weapons into Musical Instruments
From Guns to Drums: Pedro Reyes Turns Weapons into Musical Instruments
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This Week in Racism: A Red Lobster Waitress Got No Tip and a Racial Slur
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. - A Red Lobster in...
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We Await Silent Thomas's Empire
☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ I first came across Thomas Pynchon in Santa Cruz, at a girl who I liked's apartment. She was sort of seeing a guy—a guy who made no effort to be ‘nice’ to me, which per my reactionary...
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'Asphalt Watches' Is a Gonzo Animated Film About Hitchhiking in Canada
Riding in the back seat with Santa. A frame from 'Asphalt Watches.' Toronto artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman went on a hitchhiking trek 13 years ago from a 7-11 in Chilliwack BC to downtown...
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The Religious Right's Anti-Vaccine Hysteria Is Reviving Dead Diseases in America
The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation by James Gilray, 1802. Image via I’ve never really understood the fear of vaccines, mostly because there's no real, hard evidence linking...
View ArticleBill Ellis's Weird New York
Bill Ellis recently moved to New York City from the depths of Florida, which is generally regarded as the strangest, most violent state in the union. To be sure, there's a ton of odd stuff going on...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Look on Mike Tyson, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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Will Pummel for Money: the Business of Floyd Mayweather
Photo via The world's consistently highest paid athletes have always been American boxers, though it does not follow that boxers as a subset are the highest paid athletes. In 2013, one of the...
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Photos of The Bad Part of Town
Tepito, Mexico City, Mexico. The great thing about Google Street View (aside from generating the occasional murder scare,) is that it allows you to visit parts of your town that you would usually be...
View ArticleFightland Talks to: Russia's Homeless MMA Legend
Fightland Talks to: Russia's Homeless MMA Legend
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Conor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: On the Street at New York Fashion Week
During NYFW, the best looks come from kids on the street. Without them there wouldn't be anyone to perpetuate the delusion that fashion actually has any inherent value. In between shows, amidst the...
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Taji's Mahal: Journey Through Clayton Patterson's Front Door Portal
Photo of Clayton Patterson and two artists by the author. For this week's Mahal, I headed to the Lower East Side to check out Clayton Patterson's newly painted front door. After decades of taking...
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I'm OK, You're OK, the Pope's OK
It's probably best to leave the context of this photo out and just enjoy it. Via Flickr user Catholic United Financial. Half a year into his tenure, Pope Francis has proved to be very, very good at...
View ArticleAaron Carter: Starting Over, Starting Now (At a Mexican Restaurant)
Aaron Carter: Starting Over, Starting Now (At a Mexican Restaurant)
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Weediquette: The Guy Who Was Raped by a Girl
Image via Flickr. For reasons that are obvious, my memory is not the best. Writing stories for this column often brings back important details I’ve forgotten. Every week, I find myself reconstructing...
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I Went to a WNBA Basketball Game
Nothing makes the average American male angrier than a woman playing sports... except maybe a blackout at the Super Bowl, full-priced buffalo wings, or a black president. After Title IX created a...
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Why Is There a Photo of R-Patz in the Cuban Revolution Museum?
While I was in Havana recently, I paid a visit to El Museo de la Revolución. The Cuban Revolution Museum, housed in the former presidential palace, is still pockmarked with numerous bullet holes and...
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