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Money

The Federal Minimum Wage Keeps Restaurant Workers on Food Stamps
Restaurant servers use food stamps at twice the rate of the general workforce, and the restaurant industry vividly captures the worst aspects of our economy: being surrounded by food but not being able to afford to eat.
Saru Jayaraman
7.26.14
war and conflict

US Evacuates Libya Embassy Amid Spiraling Violence
Around 150 embassy staff and security members were evacuated under cover of military surveillance aircraft and war planes to Tunisia.
Liz Fields
7.26.14
war and conflict

Hamas Has Rejected a Cease-fire Extension and Resumed Attacks From Gaza
The bodies of at least 85 Palestinians have been recovered as US Secretary of State John Kerry attempts to bolster the détente.
Liz Fields
7.26.14
Canada

It's Official, Canadians Aren't Climate Change Deniers
Despite Stephen Harper's government, a new poll says Canadians overwhelmingly believe in climate change.
Ben Makuch
7.26.14
crime & drugs

The Mass Incarceration Problem in America
The US has the largest prison population in the world with more than 2.4 million locked up in the country's prison system.
Grace Wyler
7.26.14
Asian cuisine

How-To: Make Cold Ramen
Richie Nakano of San Francisco hotspot Hapa Ramen shows us how to make cold ramen with his fridge leftovers (in his case: kimchi, chili peppers, corn, pea shoots, baby chard, scallions, furikake, and a poached egg) and a soy-ginger vinaigrette.
7.26.14
Environment

An Indigenous Resistance Community Evicted a Fracked Gas Pipeline Crew From Its Territories
Multiple fracked gas and tar sands pipelines have been planned where the evictions took place, without consent from the Unist’ot’en clan.
Michael Toledano
7.26.14
middle east

Why Talk of Intifada? We Should Call It a Palestinian Uprising
"Intifada" gets to be a foreign term in US media. We should remember its true meaning.
Natasha Lennard
7.26.14
Music

I Attended a Juggalo Wedding at the Gathering of the Juggalos
At this weekend's annual Gathering of the Juggalos, Tiffany and Dip Set married each other in a ceremony celebrating family values like acceptance, Faygo, and anal sex.
Mitchell Sunderland
7.26.14
VICE News

VICE News Capsule
Russian opposition activists jailed for inciting mass riots, suicide bomb attacks target a cleric and a former president in northern Nigeria, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar can't get health care, and cargo ships are killing endangered blue whales off...
VICE Staff
7.26.14
Stuff

I Hunted Feral Hogs in Florida as a Favor to the World
Feral hogs are prolific breeders that spread disease, ruin farms, and eat everything from garbage to their own offspring, and they’re quickly becoming more prevalent in most of the southern US. Hogs have even been known to kill dogs and small children...
Kathleen Hale
7.26.14
Features

Holy Shit, It’s Ten Years Since Eddy Current Suppression Ring Released “Get Up Morning”
So we chatted to guitarist Mikey Young about the band's debut record.
Tim Scott
7.26.14
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