The Profiles Issue
The Immigrant Who Conquered Porn and Became One of the Most Powerful Gay Men in New York
Michael Lucas is a Zionist, a neocon, and an award-winning porn star.
Hey Gang, Let’s Explore the Ocean Floor with a Giant Submarine!
Jacques Rougerie is a French oceanographic architect who dreams of conquering the undersea world just as astronauts dreamed of outer space in the mid 20th century.
Mikki Kendall and Her Online Beefs with White Feminists
One morning last August, Kendall, who is black, had Ida Wells in mind as she debated whether or not to violate the principle: Women don’t criticize other women. They stand in solidarity.
A Thai Refugee Camp Uses a "Simulator Apartment" to Teach People About Western Living
Prepping Burmese refugees for modern living.
Why Are So Many Aboriginal Women Being Murdered in Canada?
And what is the government going to do about it?
Jon Taffer Is America’s Greatest Poet of Drunkenness and Failure
One balmy Wednesday last December, Jon Taffer stood in the dining room of Scoreboard 2, a dive in Norwalk, California. “I want to start by telling you I don’t give a shit about these cameras!” he said. “Saving bars is my life.”
Mike Gogulski Might Be the First Case of Successful Voluntary Statelessness
In late 2008, Mike Gogulski walked into the US embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia, and renounced his citizenship; later he burned his passport in defiance. He is, in all likelihood, the only person alive today to have successfully made himself stateless...
Employees of the Month
Aneta Bartos was born in Poland and moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts. Since then, she’s had a number of successful shows, like 2013’s Boys, in which murky Polaroids of young men masturbating were exhibited in a shady midtown...
Uruguay's Jose Mujica - President Chill
Profiling the world's chillest and most badass head of state who might just hold the key to ending the global drug war.