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If Julia Gillard is Such an Atheist, Where’s All the Gay Marriage?

Australians are proud about their secularism, as exemplified by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Religion has a minor influence on the countries’ social policies and politics, yet same-sex marriage is not a reality. Full story

This Is What Winning Looks Like

My Afghanistan War Diary

I didn’t plan on spending six years covering the war in Afghanistan. But with each year, casualties and deaths rose as steadily as the local opium crop and I became obsessed with what I witnessed there—how different it was from the conflict’s portrayal in the media and in officia… Full story

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European Meltdown - The New Face of French Nationalism

Amidst the economic strain in France, the far right Front National party has experienced a resurgence in popularity. In this clip that we shot for episode four of 'VICE' on HBO, Shane meets the new faces of French nationalism and the successors of the Le Pen lineage, Marine Le Pe… Full story

Moustaches for Maduro: Venezuela Elects Chavez’s Successor

Outside the Miraflores presidential palace late on Sunday night, Roman Schuello, 59, stood among the partying red-clad government supporters and sold them fake moustaches that looked like Nicolás Maduro’s. Hours earlier Maduro won Venezuela’s presidency. “It’s the new fashion,” R… Full story

The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray

The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I talked with them about the N… Full story

What the Sequester Really Means: The Poor Will Suffer More

The sequester is a set of automatic budget cuts that reduces funding for all discretionary programs at an equal rate. The cuts aren’t meant to eliminate any programs but simply reduce funding across the board. Get ready for some potentially disastrous cuts, especially for the mos… Full story

Clubbed by Growth

Democrats tell people they’re doomed unless the government bails them out, while Republicans tell people they’re screwed unless the government does absolutely nothing. How about this: nobody is screwed or doomed, and we need to stop obsessing over the economy. Full story

What the Hell Was That: Happy Tenth Birthday, Operation Iraqi Freedom

I got an @reply the other day from a guy I met ten years ago in Fallujah, where I was working as a reporter for MTV: a young captain in the 82nd Airborne who was part of the moveable feast of infantry interviews that made up my life at the dawn of the Iraq War. It was a welcome p… Full story

Hey Black Dudes, Why the Hell Are You at CPAC?

It's kind of hard to imagine why any black person would be at CPAC. But surprisingly, there are more than a handful of brown ladies and gents at the conservative conference. I wandered around the bowels of the Gaylord Convention Center and spoke to some of them. Full story

The Dachshund United Nations

This is exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of wiener dogs hanging out on a stage meant to resemble the UN Human Rights Commission. We're pretty sure they're saying, "Woof woof, I'ma invade you if you don't lift that embargo!" Or whatever it is human UN delegates talk about all Full story