Tuareg Refugees Are Stuck Between Poverty and Violence
Mentao refugee camp, near Djibo, Burkina Faso Deep in the West African Sahel, thousands of refugees from Mali, displaced by two years of conflict, wait in the dust. Battered by the vicious desert sun,...
View ArticleWhat the Fuck Is Going on in 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'?
The fourth Transformers film had everything you could possibly want from another entry in the venerable series: robot mayhem, women wearing incredibly impractical (yet sexy) outfits, a sick butt-rock...
View ArticleCan Science Find a Safe Replacement for Alcohol?
American painter George Bellows's lithograph 'The Drunk.' Photo via Wikimedia Commons There is a knot of pain just behind my right eye that throbs in time with my pulse. My eyes feel raw. My mouth is...
View ArticlePhotographs of the People You Scream at On the Phone
Have you ever phoned up a customer services department, been put on hold for 40 minutes and then let out your frustration on the stranger who eventually answered? Of course you have. Did you ever...
View ArticleMeeting Nepal's Living Goddesses
Living goddess Samita Bajracharya playing the sarod (All photos by the author) Twelve-year-old living goddess Samita Bajracharya doesn’t reply to questions. So her mother does instead. "I do think...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: 'All 13-Year-Olds Are Feral Creatures': An Interview with...
All photos by Don Morris Katherine Faw Morris, a 30-year-old North Carolinian turned New Yorker, wrote what might be the most provocative literary debut of the year. That being said, it’s hard to...
View ArticleKim Gordon and Raymond Pettibon Are Fucking Depressing
So happy to be here. Thanks for coming. Oof. I’m sitting at a bar right now as I type this, trying to think of how exactly to describe the event that I just witnessed at Strand Book Store near...
View ArticleVICE News: America's Veteran Crisis
As politicians in Washington wring their hands over the Veterans Affairs scandal, VICE News travels to Portland, Oregon, to see what it’s all really about. We meet Curtis Shanley, a former Marine...
View ArticleThe World Cup Is Like Fashion Week for Brazil's Security Industry
An officer fires tear gas at head height in Instanbul. Photo by Mystyslav Chernov/ Wikimedia. In the past few years, tear gas has become an essential element of any protest; from Rio to Istanbul,...
View ArticleMotherboard: The Lab Apes of Liberia
Our crew travelled to remote Liberia to discover Monkey Island, an area inhabited solely by former lab-tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars. As part of the Liberian Institute for...
View ArticleI Got Off Methadone by Tripping
Sid takes ibogaine in Iboga Nights, a film by David Graham Scott, to help stop his addiction to injecting morphine tablets In 2003, after 20 years of taking methadone and dabbling with heroin, David...
View ArticleChina's Super Rich Party Elite Don't Give a Single Fuck
Tell a young person from Shanghai that you're going clubbing and it’s unlikely they’ll picture a night devoted to €4 drinks deals, pubs that smell of sick and minor head trauma. And that’s because...
View ArticleI Tried Bull Penis So You Don’t Have To
The menu at Feng Mao Mutton Kebab Last week, a grocery store in Austin, Texas, was slapped with a lawsuit after it “accidentally” sold bull penis. The cut of meat, called “pizzle”, was apparently...
View ArticleMeet the Drinker Behind 'Drunk History'
It all started with one drunk night. Actor Jake Johnson – the dude who plays Nick on New Girl, but has also been in seemingly shitty but actually funny movies, like No Strings Attached and 21 Jump...
View ArticleVICE News: Inside Maximum Security Prison - Part 1
America is locking up more people than any other nation on Earth. Home to just 5 percent of the world’s total population, the United States houses more than 20 percent of the world's prisoners. In the...
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