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socialism

If You Hate Capitalism You Will Love This Map

The Black Socialists of America are hoping to put alternatives to capitalism on the map with their newest project.
Edward Ongweso Jr
7.24.19
New music

There's No Shame in Loving a Greatest Hits Album

Playlists on Spotify and Apple Music have rendered best-of compilations obsolete—but that isn't stopping Spoon from releasing one.
Drew Schwartz
7.24.19
Environment

Indonesian Man Walks 800km Backwards to Save The Environment

An environmentalist and father of four is making a tedious one-month trek from his village in East Java to Indonesia’s capital in a bid to make a statement on rainforest preservation.
Jade Poa
7.24.19
LGBTQ

Japan’s First Openly Gay Parliament Member Promises to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Taiga Ishikawa promises to accomplish the task in six years. If successful, Japan will join Taiwan as the only Asian state to recognize marriage equality.
Meera Navlakha
7.24.19
housing

Inside the Wildly Popular Forum Where Landlords Plot to Screw You Over

It's a terrifying window into the tenant/landlord power dynamic—and a national housing hellscape.
Rick Paulas
7.24.19
Weed

A Lazy Person’s Guide to the CBD Products Actually Worth Trying

I went to Europe’s biggest CBD expo to test a bunch of samples (and try to push past their placebo effect).
Niloufar Haidari
7.24.19
Health

New Drug-Resistant Malaria Strains Are Spreading in Southeast Asia

These stronger strains are slowly becoming the dominant malaria-causing parasites in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Lex Celera
7.24.19
Quit Your Shit Job

How to Quit Your Shit Job and Become… a Dominatrix!

In the first installment of our new column, we meet a former financial researcher who switched from flogging numbers to flogging people.
Rose Stokes
7.24.19
TV

The True Story of How Your Data Was Stolen to Fix Elections

VICE speaks to the directors of 'The Great Hack', a new Netflix documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
7.24.19
News

Two Women Are Spearheading India’s Latest Space Mission

Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the moon, has been celebrated across the country for making history in more ways than one.
Meera Navlakha
7.24.19
Drugs

Party Organisers Describe the Weirdest Ways They've Seen People Smuggle in Drugs

"Depending on the style of the wig, it’s possible to smuggle in enough drugs for a three-day music festival."
Felippe Canale
7.24.19
News

Journalist Maria Ressa’s Libel Trial is Underway in the Philippines

“How this is decided will have an impact on...the quality of journalism in the digital age in the Philippines.”
Meera Navlakha
7.24.19
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