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Anna Krien Explores the Dark Side of Australian Football Culture

Anna Krien's book Night Games is primarily about a rape trial of a footballer, and in it somehow Krien manages to pry open a world of tacky nightclubs, gangbangs, and locker-room jokes, by first of all admitting how lost she is in it herself. Full story

Can Britain Handle the Rapes, Killings, and Clans in Somalia?

There's a big meeting in London tomorrow to talk about all of Somalia's problems. Officials from the UN, the African Union, the IMF, and 50 countries will be there to impart their wisdom/spout platitudes in a bid to help Somalia rebuild itself after two decades of conflict. Are t… Full story

VICE Meets

Conrad Black

Conrad Black is a controversial former media baron who renounced his Canadian citizenship to become a British Lord, and later spent time in an American jail for fraud. We went to his sprawling estate in Toronto's luxurious Bridal Path neighborhood to chat with him about how the U… Full story

I Was Tortured as a Bahraini Political Prisoner

Bahraini journalist Ahmed Radhi was one of the 500 prisoners who were detained following the citizen uprising against Bahrain’s government that began in 2011. Ahmed told us about the supposed reasons for his detention and the poor conditions he faced while in prison. Full story

The Upside to a Giant Gadget Orgy

To view a trade show like CES solely through the risk-free booths of the big boys ignores the opportunity present to check out what's cooking on the fringes. Full story

Gunrunning with the Free Syrian Army

They Said I’d Be Yelling “Allahu Akhbar” in No Time

Blindfolded, I fidgeted nervously in the back of an unmarked car, squished between a gunrunner and a young Free Syrian Army soldier. It had been at least an hour since we left the border town of Kilis, Turkey, and we were now off-roading across the Syria-Turkey border. Full story

Foreign Correspondents

A Hong Kong State Radio Reporter at CPAC

China has a one-party system, so Ben has always been bewildered by the pageantry of our elections. Watch as he attempts to wrap his head around one of America's silliest, and most important, traditions. Full story

Foreign Correspondents

Laurence Haim of i>Télé at the Presidential Debate

In the premiere episode of 'Foreign Correspondents,' we examine the the future of journalism in the "Tweetocracy," corporate sponsorship of the American democratic process, and Rudy Giuliani explains why being a socialist in America is a bad thing. Full story

You Can't Be Batman's Girlfriend and a Good Reporter at the Same Time

Vicki Vale would've gotten yelled at. I still remember every detail of her first scene in Tim Burton’s Batman. Kim Basinger makes her entrance as Vale, in a bridal, off –the-shoulder white gown, stalking around Wayne Manor into a room devoted to exotic suits of armor, where she u… Full story

Cancer Memoirs Are Breaking Out Like the Plague

The thing that motors cancer journalism, which makes it increasingly acceptable, even good, for hacks to tell all about the very darkest moments of their lives, is our craven culture of voyeurism. Nothing can remain private anymore, especially the bad stuff. Full story