Tragedy on Vice

Pen Pals

RockBottom Heads Toward Bottom

The early morning air stunk of pissy pussy and unwashed balls. RockBottom did his thing all night like always, dispensing drugs to the party people. The fiends were nodded out, neck-cramp proper, and the freaks spun out on E were in the bedroom, fruitlessly masturbating each other. Full story

No Justice No Trees

Rural Brazil Lets An(other) Environmental Murderer Walk Free

Last week, as the town of Marabá, Brazil, geared up to celebrate its centennial, it was also wrapping up the trial of the killers of environmental activist couple Zé Claudio and Maria do Espirito Santo. But instead of closing the book on this violent chapter of the region’s histo… Full story

Aaron Swartz's Tragic Battle with Copyright

Aaron H. Swartz, one of our most vigorous champions of open access and copyright reform, committed suicide in New York City on Friday at the age of 26. He was a pioneer and a renegade, part of the team that built Reddit as well as the widely-used RSS protocol. Full story

Robert Griffin III, Teenaged Runaway

Robert Griffin III is a suburban teenage girl wandering around the city at dusk with no bra. He is too naïve to be scared. He believes in himself too much. This can’t end well, The gap in knowledge is too great. The lessons won’t stick if they come any way but the hardest. Full story

Trying to Report on the Sandy Hook Shooting

What do you say about a dead six-year-old? That’s what I was trying to figure out when I headed up to Newtown—the site of the most infamous shooting in years—earlier this week. Almost every resident I spoke to Monday reported some kind of connection with the Sandy Hook massacre,… Full story

Progress and Globalization in Bangladesh: The Tazreen Fashions Garment Factory Fire

The garment trade is at the forefront of the kind of industrial revolution that we are experiencing in Bangladesh today, which is why, if from the outside, we look like some Dickensian hellhole of sweatshops and smokestacks, the image is not altogether inapposite. Full story

Plight of the Concorde

Remembering the Concorde, Flight 4590, and an insatiable appetite for jet fuel. Full story

Filibustin' with Willie D - Should You Take Your Guns to Town?

What can keep you safe from a closet psychopath who is armed to the teeth with over 6,000 rounds of ammunition, four guns, and a determination to kill indiscriminately? More guns or more gun control? Full story