Fast Food Workers Fight for $15 an Hour
The numbers speak for themselves. If today’s minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968, it would be $10.52 instead of $7.25. For many Americans, this difference is the cost of rent or a car...
View ArticleVICE News: Julian Assange Talks to VICE About Bradley Manning and Political...
In the buildup to Julian Assange’s run for the Australian senate, VICE was invited to the Ecuadorian embassy in London for a rare in-person interview. Our visit coincided with the conviction of...
View ArticleThe Refugee Family Living in a British Military Hut in Cyprus
Mustafa and his family in the doorway of their Cypriot home, a tin hut that was originally built on a British Army Base in Egypt during the Second World War. Just 12 miles from the vomit slicks of...
View ArticleKompLaintDept. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Anna Wintour
Left: Bee Shaffer and Anna Wintour at the Chaos to Couture opening. Right: Springtime for Sid in Paris. "Pink is punk." Thus spoke Anna Wintour at the benefit gala that marked the opening of the...
View ArticleElton John's "Home Again" Is the Theme to the Worst Disney Movie Never Made
Elton John's "Home Again" Is the Theme to the Worst Disney Movie Never Made
View ArticleVICE Loves Magnum: Dominic Nahr's Eerie Photos from Conflict Zones and...
KENYA. Hell's Gate, 2013. A worker takes a break in the new geothermal pool at the geothermal plant near Nairobi. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Keep Standing by Me
Image by Courtney Nicholas The 1986 classic Stand By Me is one of three celebrated films—The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil are the other two—adapted from Stephen King’s short-story collection...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Ed Templeton’s Huntington Beach
Photos by Ed Templeton For a skateboarder growing up on the East Coast in the 80s and 90s, Huntington Beach seemed like ground zero. Christian Hosoi, the most stylish skater of all time lived there;...
View ArticleWild Animals
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View ArticleI'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'I Want to Be a Pilot'
Dreams give us hope that in the future we can achieve what only exists in our minds. Sometimes I get pulled out of my own world and I realize my dreams are so small. When so many opportunities exist,...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time to laugh at some overreacting, entitled wimps again! Cry-Baby #1: Dola Indidis The incident: Jesus Christ was crucified 2000ish years ago (allegedly). The appropriate response: Nothing. Let...
View ArticleLele Saveri Is Selling Zines in a Subway Station
Lele Saveri Is Selling Zines in a Subway Station
View ArticleThailand's Full Moon Parties Have Been Taken Over by YOLO Idiots
It’s an old cliché to bemoan what is compared to what used to be. But as the morning sun rises over the fluoro debris and thousands of empty plastic cups from the night before, it's hard for me to do...
View ArticleStoya on Ethics, Porn, and Workers' Rights
A porn set. Image via Wikimedia Commons I was talking to this reporter recently about pubic hair. My favorite interviews are the ones that feel like a conversation with a stranger at a coffee shop or...
View ArticleShorties: Me and Alan
The VICE London office just sent us this weird little video about five women professing their love for the same man. They love his face, his scent, and the way he walks, and would happily do anything...
View ArticleI Used to Be a Scientologist, Now I Help People Out of Cults by Smoking Weed
Dennis Erlich (pictured above, in a weird hat) was the original guy who exposed the craziness of Scientology on the internet. A member since 1967 and later a minister, he started to rebel against the...
View ArticleGood Riddance to Anthony Weiner
Photo via Flickr user Katjusa Cisar After a brief honeymoon period during which it looked like he might actually win his dream job, Anthony Weiner is tanking in the polls and has almost no chance of...
View ArticleI Ate Ice Cream with a Member of al Qaeda in Syria
Abu Mahjin. Al Qaeda has a bit of an image problem. Their reputation as the world’s most feared terrorist network can be traced back to precisely 8:46 AM EST on September 11, 2001. And it’s a...
View ArticleFatty XXL Meets the Little Mermaid High on X and Texting
For almost a decade now Action Books has been filling a gap in American publishing by translating works that are considered avant-garde masterpieces in other parts of the world into English. They’ve...
View ArticleThe Kabul Zoo Is a Rare Afghan Success Story
When the Taliban regime fell in December of 2001, I rushed down from northern Afghanistan into Kabul with a handful of other journalists to report its demise. We hadn't expected the fighting to end so...
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