The World Hates You Issue
Employees of the Month
Bridget Collins grew up in Minnesota, across the street from a huge lake that’s frozen most of the year. As we sent this issue to press, she was relaxing on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean drinking a Coca-Cola Light and thinking about...
Nivek Ogre Is Totally Doomed
Nivek Ogre (né Kevin Graham Ogilvie) is best known as the guttural screech that is synonymous with Skinny Puppy, who arguably invented electro-industrial in the early 80s. I recently spoke with Ogre about such joyful matters as the Fukushima meltdown...
These Rappers Hate Ecstasy
The hip-hop community’s embrace of molly has been striking, since historical stereotypes dictate that rappers are normally more interested in chilled-out drugs like cough syrup and weed. But one hip-hop group from Brooklyn called Stereo Marz is not...
Crossing the Danube
Between World War II and the fall of Communism, many fled Soviet-controlled East Germany and headed westward. The stories of these defectors have been exhaustively documented, but much less is known about the few who headed against the tide, west to...
Teaching Evil to Norwegians
Norway has been linked to grandiose notions of evil for centuries. Soltun, a school Norwegians attend for one year after secondary school in the town of Harstad, announced that it will be offering a new course devoted to a yearlong study of the evil...
Is Your Dog a Butterface? This Guy Can Help
It’s no surprise that dog owners around the world spend bazillions to ensure that their butt-sniffing buddies are happy, healthy, and looking good—including paying plastic surgeons to achieve their ideas of pooch perfection. Edgard M. Brito is one of...
Kangaroo Scrotums Are the New Victims of Global Warming
Climate change is a huge concern for many reasons. But it’s only recently that climate change has threatened Australia’s hilarious but substantial kangaroo nutsack trade. The hopping marsupials’ scrotums have made John Kreuger hundreds of thousands of...
Easter in the Mountains
I shot these portraits at a small town in Nayarit during the Judea Cora, which is the Cora's version of Catholicism’s Holy Week that involves a cosmic battle and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Cora were the last indigenous group in Mexico to be...
This Is What Winning Looks Like
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...
Gay-Proofing the Bible
An anonymous group of Christians is claiming that, actually, the parts of the Bible that are interpreted as references to homosexuality don’t say anything at all about diddling someone who has the same type of junk as yours—and they’ve gone a step...