A Jewish College Group Is Opening Its Doors to Criticism of Israel
Swarthmore College. Photo via Wikipedia Commons Swarthmore College may have just fired the first shot across the bow in a dispute between the Jewish student organization Hillel International and a...
View ArticleAn Exiled Pakistani Politican Is Leading Millions from a Remote London Suburb
An MQM election graphic with Altaf Hussain (picture via) One day in December 2012, tens of thousands of people gathered in Karachi, Pakistan’s mega-city. The speaker was not on stage, instead...
View ArticleSeals Are Delicious, So Let's Kill and Eat Them
Seal pup via Seal hunting gets a bad rap. The phrase probably gives you a visual of agro dudes cracking the skulls of helpless seals with giant wooden clubs, and everyone from Morrissey to American...
View ArticleStolen Puppy Photography
Photo courtesy of Mary Lundberg Puppies are man’s cutest and bestest friends, and people who mistreat them are coldhearted monsters who probably have a baby-dick complex. Unfortunately, monsters do...
View ArticleA Few Words About This Whole "Wale Threatening Complex" Thing
A Few Words About This Whole "Wale Threatening Complex" Thing
View ArticleVICE News: Child Workers of the World, Unite!
travel Unaccompanied Miners Down the Shaft with Bolivia’s Child Laborers By Wes Enzinna Jose Luis and his cousin, young laborers who work together inside the Cerro Rico mine. All photos by Jackson...
View ArticleProfanity!: Queer Christ: A Primer on LGBT Theology
Photo via Flickr User daameriva Christianity is usually considered by non-Christians to be a static, unchanging collection of just-so stories and grasps for power by institutions. It’s no secret that...
View ArticleLA's Best Art House Theater Had a 24-Hour Telethon
In the brand-conscious landscape of Los Angeles, Cinefamily wants you to know they’re a champion of their identity crisis. An art house / cinematheque, a comedy club / music venue, an indie theater...
View ArticleGuilt-Tripping
All illustrations by Evie Cahir. In 2010, a friend of mine started a travel magazine and asked if she could publish an article I had written about a Kashmiri tailor, during a month I spent living on a...
View ArticleIntercommunal Violence Continues in the Central African Republic
Video and photos by Robert King The Central African Republic, already one of the poorest nations in the world, is descending into chaos. In the capital city of Bangui alone, hundreds have died and...
View ArticleIs Hiring an Internet Hitman in Russia As Easy As Ordering Pizza?
The "About Us" page of Russia-based hitman website zakazat-kilera.com By now you've all heard about the legions of tech-savvy hitmen hanging out on the deepweb waiting to be asked to kill people. The...
View ArticleWhat Radio Censorship Says About America
via Nikki Loehr. Last month, Barrett Brown's legal counsel sent us a letter from their imprisoned client, who was at the time bored out of his mind in jail. Today we recieved another missive from...
View ArticleSwedish Neo-Nazis Had a Fight in the Woods
The Swedish Resistance Movement, or SMR, an ultra-violent neo-Nazi group, has been spending a lot of time recently spreading their message in the Stockholm suburb of Kärrtorp. They have painted...
View ArticleEnduring the Aftershock of OxyContin in Canada
Image via Earlier this month in Ottawa, a woman named Ada Giuduce-Tompson pleaded with the federal government to start doing more to prevent dangerous prescription drugs from being sold and...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: This Year in Bad Cops
Photo via Flickr user fdecomite This year we learned, again, that the people who are in charge of enforcing the law have no idea what they were doing. Major news stories on the NSA’s epic surveillance...
View ArticleWelcome to MeetAtTheAirport.Com, the Worst Idea on the Internet
The holiday season is finally upon us, meaning over the coming weeks many of you will have time to kill in airports, doing airport-y things like eating extremely expensive stale bagels, shuffling...
View ArticleThe Politics of Protest in Egypt Are Shifting Once Again
Pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo. Photo by Tom Dale For close to three years, Egyptians have been protesting and occupying public spaces. Almost every Friday, some group, somewhere, would be...
View ArticleDogecoin Brings the Cryptocurrency Craze to Its Logical Conclusion
Dogecoin Brings the Cryptocurrency Craze to Its Logical Conclusion
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