I Guess We Need to Say It Again: George W. Bush Was the Worst
Look at this colossal fucking piece of shit. Photo via Rex USA Americans get stereotyped as stupid, but I think it’s unfair to call us ignorant, exactly—the problem is that we, as a nation, have a...
View ArticleWhy Is Everyone at the Tribeca Film Festival Wearing a Funny Hat?
The Tribeca Film Festival has been a harrowing experience for me. I've spent so much time inside cavernous dark places that I'm starting to feel like a speedo lodged in between Kevin Smith's two...
View ArticleVICE News: Bomb Blast Bajaur
On April 20, a female suicide bomber attacked a hospital in Khar, one of the largest towns in Pakistan's Bajaur region. Four people were killed. When we visited Bajaur six months earlier, the army had...
View ArticleThe Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic
The Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic
View ArticleDaytona Beach, 1999
In 1999, award-winning Magnum photographer Eli Reed set off to document spring break in Daytona Beach, Florida. Having watched the white kids getting hysterically drunk and "trying to crawl up inside...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know About Gay Wrestling
Image Via When we first heard about a gay wrestling club in San Francisco we were like, those San Franciscans. Of course you have a special club where dudes wear spandex and roll around trying to...
View ArticleVICE on HBO Extended: Pakistani Dress Up
The most dangerous place in the world may be the Line of Control in Kashmir, which separates India from Pakistan. The decades-old conflict between the two nations could lead to the potential end of...
View ArticleMy Trip to the Sperm Bank was Anticlimactic
I went to a sperm bank yesterday and learned all about clichés. This wasn’t the original plan. The original plan was to learn about discrimination through sperm donation, but that didn’t really work...
View ArticleInternet Drug Dealers Are Really Nice Guys
The Silk Road is sometimes described as the eBay of illegal drugs. It’s actually more like Etsy, with its do-it-yourself philosophy and friendly community. Just like Etsy, you place your order with a...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Christina Pagliarolo (via) The incident: An overweight teen went on one of those TV-boot-camp weight-loss things. The appropriate response: Losing a bit of weight. And probably crying and...
View ArticleBig K.R.I.T. Told Us How He Would Soundtrack an Orgy
Big K.R.I.T. is on a roll right now. The 2011 XXL Freshman Class alum just dropped his tenth mixtape, King Remembered in Time, which boasts some of the hardest tracks to come out so far this year. His...
View Article'Yomango' Is Barcelona's Ideological Shoplifting Movement
All images courtesy of Yomango.net The world's economy is still fucked. And ever since the West went into an economic meltdown in 2008, anticonsumerist sentiment has been steadily on the...
View ArticleThe Imaginary Republic of Molossia
I am driving to a place that doesn’t exist. I am doing this because the President of Molossia emailed me. He’d seen something I’d written about his little nation, so he invited me for a visit. “I will...
View ArticleA Factory Collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, and 300 People Were Crushed...
This January, when I visited Bangladesh to write about the Tazreen Fashions factory fire for VICE's Fashion issue, a fire which killed more than 110 workers, I was left with the impression that life...
View ArticleRolling into the Future with Inventist Shane Chen
Hell yes. That looks sweet and fun as fuck. If you’re like me, you’re annoyed with the lack of decent transportation options available for humanity. Trains are ugly and slow, cars cause global warming...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Ann Coulter Wants to Arrest Women for Wearing Hijabs
Photo by Nate Miller If you were hoping racism would magically go away this week and our society would transform into a color-blind, Star Trek-esque utopia, sorry. I hate to be the one to inform you...
View ArticleSome Tribeca Film Festival Movies Made Us Vomit, Others Made Us Smile
The Tribeca Film Festival is an annual thing that has been bringing cine-nerds from all over the world to lower Manhattan for the past 12 years. It was started by a bunch of people you don't know, and...
View ArticleShorties: Life with Shisei - Horiyoshi III
Our buddies at VICE Japan launched their YouTube channel last year and the videos have been amazing. A few weeks ago we featured Alone in the Zone, a doc about a guy who refuses to leave his farm near...
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