Question of the Day: Have You Ever Been in a Situation Where You Needed a Gun?
Some men shooting guns in Arkansas. (Photo via) Arkansas – land of the Clintons, Johnny Cash and the Ozarks – is now home to a school that is arming its teachers with guns. Arkansas Christian Academy...
View ArticleVICE News: The São Paulo Protests in 7 Acts - Part 1
Back in October 2012, we covered a protest staged by the Free Pass Movement (abbreviated as MPL in Portuguese) for the National Free Fare Fight Day in São Paulo city. Earlier this year, we aired a...
View ArticleThe Nine-Year-Old Romanian Strongman and His Pissed-off Dad
Image via YouTube Giuliano Stroe is probably the strongest nine-year-old on the planet. The Romanian boy started lifting weights when he was two and has set world records for doing push-ups without...
View ArticleIs Pauly Shore Trying to Troll VICE?
A couple of weeks ago, we ran a piece by Jonathan Daniel Brown about the time he interned for Pauly Shore. As you would expect, the article was about how Pauly is a douche and interning for him was...
View ArticleA Small Minority of Idiots: Arsene Wenger Needs to Stop Being Football's Lou...
Illustration by Cei Willis It was Scott Fitzgerald who famously declared there are no second acts in American lives. It's a wildly overused quote, but it says a lot about the formation of people's...
View ArticleTwin Blasts in Lebanon Signal Intensifying Unrest
Sitting on a street corner about 60 feet from the Salam Mosque in the Al-Mina district of Tripoli, 21-year-old Yasser looked sorrowfully into the distance. His head and left hand were wrapped in...
View ArticleMenk, by John Doran: I Walked 47 Miles of Barbed Wire (Part Two)
Photo of the author by Will Ireland, courtesy of Prog Magazine. My name is John Doran and I write about music. The young bucks who run VICE’s website thought it would be amusing to employ a...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
Syrian Snipers UN WEAPONS INSPECTORS WERE ATTACKED IN SYRIA They were there to investigate the recent alleged chemical weapon attack (via) UN weapons inspectors were attacked by sniper fire in...
View ArticleMeet the Gay Russian Teen Using Twitter to Fight Homophobia
A screenshot of a photo Kirill recently tweeted In the last few months, Russia has become notorious for its antigay stance. Vladimir Putin’s regime has passed “gay propaganda” laws that effectively...
View ArticleNative American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake...
Apparently the women are sold for "parties" on American ships. Picture via WikiCommons Native women, children and even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the Canada-US...
View ArticleChelsea Girl
From left: the author, Chelsea Manning, and Lady Gaga. Image by the author I didn’t know who Chelsea Manning was until she told everyone who she was. I don’t really follow current events outside of...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: "Paula Deen" Is Going to Kill "Trayvon Martin" on TV
Welcome to the Trayvon Martin Will Never Really Die 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...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: The Cops Should Always Be on Camera
Photo via Flickr user Oakley Originals For the past 12 months, police officers in Rialto, California, have been wearing cameras while on duty as part of a pilot program. It’s expensive to mount a...
View ArticleReading Festival, Are You Breaking Up With Me?
Reading Festival, Are You Breaking Up With Me?
View ArticleLess Coca in Colombia Means Nothing for Your Supply
A coca leaf. (Photo via) According to a UN report released earlier this month, coca growing in Colombia is down by 25 percent. At first glance, the news appears to be either welcome – if you’re of the...
View ArticleI Was an Embarrassing Viral Star and I Didn't Like the Attention
The author's photo posted by Geordie Shore cast member Vicky Pattison. (Click for full size) On the 14th of October, 2012 (a Sunday), I woke up with a hangover and very little memory of the night...
View ArticleMidgaans and Ethiopians Are Fighting for Last Place in Somaliland
Above, the Jaylaani barbershop. Below to the left, a Gaboye in front of the shop. The Jaylaani barbershop in the center of Hargeisa, Somaliland, does good business. It’s nothing special as far as...
View ArticlePolyamory Is a Good Way to Be Slutty Without Hurting Anyone
Polyamory supporters in San Francisco. via WikiCommons. Tall, dark and handsome. That’s the general idea of a perfect husband when you’re a little girl. You can’t really imagine what he’ll look like,...
View ArticleTurkey and Greece Are Working Together to Punish Dissidents
Anti-Erdogan graffiti on the side of an ambulance during the recent unrest in Istanbul – which was caused, according to Erdogan, by disruptive foreign plotters. (Photo via) While Turkey stagnates in...
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