direct democracy

Tech

Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App

10.16.17

By Louise Matsakis
Tech

Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics?

01.02.17

By Sue Brideshead
Tech

Elon Musk Wants to Die in an Ultra-Democratic Society on Mars, Apparently

06.02.16

By VICE Staff
Tech

What If Everyone Voted on Everything?

04.20.16

By Rose Eveleth
Travel

The Swiss Custom of Voting While Shitfaced and Heavily Armed

05.13.15

By Michel Schultheiss and Evan Ruetsch, Words by Michel Schultheiss
These UK Election Candidates Think Voters Should Get to Decide Every Issue

05.07.15

By Ben Gelblum
Quebec’s Most Militant Student Group Has Purged Its Executive Committee

04.06.15

By Nick Rose
Tech

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03.02.15

By Julian Mortimer Smith
Tech

Can OpenGov’s Madison Platform Change the Surveillance State?

12.01.13

By DJ Pangburn

The Latest

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Gaming

Leon Kennedy’s Age in Every Resident Evil Game, Including Requiem (RE9)

How old is Leon Kennedy in every Resident Evil game? From RE2 to Resident Evil Requiem, here is a full timeline of the protagonist’s age.

1 hour ago

By Brent Koepp
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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

5 hours ago

By Luis Prada
THE PALMER/GETTY IMAGES

Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

5 hours ago

By Luis Prada
VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES

Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

6 hours ago

By Luis Prada
WWE

Entertainment

Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

7 hours ago

By Haley Miller