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Pen Pals: Home Is Where the Prison Is
A bunch of folks—especially think-tank scholarly types—have been talking about reforming the prison system lately because everyone who looks at how it treats inmates is like, “Whoa, this is the most...
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How a Remote Laotian Village Became Asia's Cancun
Photo by Florence Earle Vang Vieng is a small town of 25,000 nestled in the jungles of northwestern Laos, on the banks of the Nam Song River. It’s home to caves, lagoons, and lush green hills—a...
View ArticleVICE News: In Saddam's Shadow - Part 1
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, we return to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. Our guide is Waleed Nesyif, the former lead singer of Acrassicauda. He's returning home for the first time...
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A Chat with the Executive Secretary of Congo's Rampant M23 Rebels
Francois Rucogoza, executive secretary of the M23 rebel group. For 20-odd years, the eastern regions of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have played host to a terribly complicated and bloody...
View ArticleShorties: Lil Bub & Friendz - Trailer
Starring Lil Bub and Bub's owner, Mike Bridavsky, along with Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat, and meme-manager supreme Ben Lashes, Lil Bub & Friendz follows the life and times of Bub and...
View ArticleHey Austin, Thanks for Letting Us Destroy Your Town
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Reasons to Love the Sequester’s Massive Budget Cuts
Thanks to the sequester, there will be less of this happening. Since it went into effect on March 1, pundits, journalists, and policymakers have decried the sequester—the process by which $85 billion...
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Why Canada Needs the Sasquatch
Canada should invest serious resources in creating a race of blurry ape-people. It hasn’t been a great year for those of us in the suspect-the-Sasquatch-might-be-a-real-thing community. This was...
View ArticleThe Night the Bottom Fell Out from Under the Rap Internet
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Dogmageddon: Meet Frank
So, here's what Pope Francis brings to the table: - He's a guy who, famously, cooks his own meals, rides the bus to work, and lives in a single apartment rather than the palace befitting an...
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Really, Ryan?: All the New Gay Boys
I am a young gay man living in New York City, and I’m supposed to be having the most sex of my life (that’s what the TV shows and the Butt magazines and the overheard conversations at the gay bar tell...
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Deoptimized
To gage a website’s success, one must look at metrics: clicks, views, shares, tweets, points, likes, search-engine optimization, and on and on. As experts and amateurs analyze the trends between...
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Django Django – 'WOR' (Official Video)
Mecury music prize nominees Django Django became obsessed by the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad. So, naturally, they asked Noisey if we’d be up for travelling over to India and...
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Partying with the Secret Police in Romania
Illustration by Michael Shaeffer Vacation options in communist Romania were pretty limited. When Labor Day, the big party holiday of the year, rolled around on May 1, many Romanians traveled to...
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Behind the Debauchery
One of my favorite photos of Rachel Korine. She is a huge fan of Gucci Mane, and, while he can be difficult to read, I think he was a big fan of hers, too. I mean, who wouldn't be? She crochets! I’ve...
View ArticleVICE News: In Saddam's Shadow - Part 2
VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad ten years after the US invasion. In part two, we witness an awe-inspiring outdoor group prayer and get a glimpse of metal band Acrassicauda's former...
View ArticleVICE News: Beasts of Burden - Part 1
VICE correspondent Gelareh Kiazand searches Kabul for illicit gambling rings where men bet on quail fights, buzkashi (it's like polo, but with a headless goat), and dog fights. But first she has to...
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How to Sext Without Looking Like an Idiot
There are a few things in life that everyone over the age of 16 should be able to do: cook a few decent meals, navigate a new city without Google Maps, enjoy a hangover, and, bear with me here, send a...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Camera: "Life's a Photo. Take It" - Campaign Overview
The campaign overview for "Life's a Photo. Take It."
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Abu Dhabi Built the World's Largest Solar Power Plant with Oil and Mirrors
One of the world's oiliest countries is now operating one of the most advanced clean energy power plants. The Shams 1, a 100-megawatt concentrated solar power plant, has just started soaking up the...
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