America on Vice

Shane Bugbee Searched for the Bad Side of America and Didn’t Find It

Shane Bugbee has been pissing people off since the early 90s with his obscene zines and satanic pornos. Shane and his wife Amy's most recent book and movie is the result of a year spent living on the road. They set out to make a scathing indictment of America, but unfortunately everyone they ran into was intelligent and nice. Full story

Please Start Banning Books Again

I kind of miss the idea of cultural lines that one can’t step over. One of my most memorable high school experiences was getting a permission slip signed by my parents so I could listen to an audiotape of Allen Ginsberg reading “America.” Full story

Laos Is Still Under Attack from Its Secret War

Every day, a team of 20 women wake up knowing the jobs they have to go to could get them blown to smithereens: unexploded American cluster bombs dropped during the secret war in Laos could detonate at any moment as they clear dangerous landmines from Laos with their metal detecto… Full story

The Kentucky Derby... On Acid!

We could barely catch a glimpse of the horses as they pounded past on the wet earth. She had this terrifyingly blank look on her face, and she said, “The ground was shaking underneath me... so this little courtyard here suddenly became the ocean, and I was floating in it.” Full story

A Sweatshop of One's Own

An Exploration of Post-Slave-Labor American Fashion

What if the crap-manufacturing industry collapses and all of the indentured servants the US employs there are no longer able to produce cheaply manufactured garments? What atrocities would Americans be forced to wear? To illustrate this predicament, I made my own wardrobe from sc… Full story

Colts and Fillies

Photos and styling by Olivia Bee. Full story

The World's American Dream

International Designers Discuss the USA's Global Fashion Domination (or Lack Thereof)

For this American-themed Fashion Issue we thought it would be interesting to ask our international offices to get in touch with their countries’ most influential designers and fashion icons to see what they thought of our country’s fashion sense. Full story

This Guy Wants to Start His Own Aryan Country

You know who really gets the shitty end of the stick nowadays? White people. Sure, they come out best in socioeconomic standings and suffer no persecution for the color of their skin, but they have to put up with non-white people living among them. The Northwest Front feels the s… Full story

In Search of Great Men

Using 15-day Amtrak USA Rail Passes, I crossed our country to photograph my fellow passengers, asking them where they came from and where they were heading: an 18-year-old facing felony mescaline charges, a woman returning to Madison for her ex-boyfriend’s funeral, an exotic danc… Full story

Are Anti-Gun Murder Squads Killing Pro-Gun Campaigners?

Probably not, but the death of a firearm-loving YouTube sensation has conspiracy theorists going wild. Full story