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I Tried to Simplify My Life by Eating my Childhood Lunch for a Week

My first impression, upon looking at the lunch with adult eyes, was, "I can’t believe I used to eat this every day."

Hannah Smothers In Health

This Gene Technology Could Change the World. Its Maker Isn’t Sure It Should.

Kevin Esvelt came up with a way to use gene editing for gene drives, a technology that could change the ecological fate of the whole world. How does one scientist deal with the potential ramifications of his own creation?

Shayla Love In Health

Women Aren't in the Constitution. What Would Change If They Were?

The Equal Rights Amendment could have a "tremendous impact" on how women are treated under the law, experts say.

Marie Solis In Identity

Phineas Fisher Offers $100,000 Bounty to Hack Banks and Oil Companies

It’s a reward for hacktivists and criminals who break into capitalist institutions, offered by one of the most infamous hackers of all time.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai In Tech

The FDA Is Cool With K, Shrooms, and Molly—But Weed Is a 'Gateway Drug'

To explain his lack of support for legalization, Joe Biden cited a line of reasoning at odds with federally approved science.

Katie Way In Drugs

Tools for Breaking Into Disney+ Accounts Have Been Online for Months

Hackers are selling Disney+ accounts on the dark web, but the tools to break into the accounts in the first place are already established.

Joseph Cox In Tech

I Tried to Simplify My Life by Eating my Childhood Lunch for a Week

My first impression, upon looking at the lunch with adult eyes, was, "I can’t believe I used to eat this every day."

Hannah Smothers In Health

This Gene Technology Could Change the World. Its Maker Isn’t Sure It Should.

Shayla Love In Health

Women Aren't in the Constitution. What Would Change If They Were?

The Equal Rights Amendment could have a "tremendous impact" on how women are treated under the law, experts say.

Marie Solis In Identity

Steve Bannon Thinks Republicans Are Blowing It on Impeachment

He disagrees with the witness-smearing tactics and thinks they need to start fighting back against "master politician" Nancy Pelosi.

Elizabeth Landers In News

Progressives Are Suddenly Really Mad at Elizabeth Warren

Morgan Baskin In News

Michael Bloomberg Finally Says Sorry for All Those Years of Stop-and-Frisk. He Was Still Defending It in January.

Emma Ockerman In News

This Week’s Impeachment Hearings Will Definitely Make Trump Angry

Cameron Joseph In News

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900 Bottles of Booze Finally Recovered from 1917 Shipwreck

The Kyros and its high-dollar cargo—including 600 bottles of Cognac and 300 bottles of Benedictine liqueur—was discovered in 1999.

Jelisa Castrodale In Food

Valve Is Officially Making Another Half-Life Game

'Half-Life: Alyx' will be a virtual reality game, and it'll be revealed soon.

Patrick Klepek In Games

Noel Gallagher Says Liam’s Tweets Are the Reason Oasis Won’t Reunite

In the past decade, Liam's taken to Twitter to call his brother "a fat fuck," "SHITBAG," "a PRICK," "Mr. Kiss Arse," and, uh, other things.

Jelisa Castrodale In Music

Lizzo Is Being Sued by the Postmates Driver She Accused of Stealing Her Food

This all started in mid-September when Lizzo used Postmates to place a delivery order from Luke's Lobster in Boston.

Jelisa Castrodale In Food

Chick-fil-A Won't Entirely Rule Out Donating to Anti-LGBTQ Charities Again

"No organization will be excluded from future consideration—faith-based or non-faith-based," the company told VICE.

Leila Ettachfini In Food

Scientists Uncovered 143 More Huge Ancient Drawings In Peru

With the help of satellites and AI, researchers spotted a trove of new 'geoglyphs' depicting animals, people, and objects.

Becky Ferreira In Tech

Offshore Bank Targeted By Phineas Fisher Confirms it Was Hacked

“A criminal investigation is ongoing,” the Cayman National Bank from the Isle of Man said in a statement.

Joseph Cox In Tech

Florida Professor With Expertise in Venezuela and Money Laundering Charged With Venezuela-Related Money Laundering

Bruce Bagley has been quoted by news outlets including NPR and NBC on issues including Venezuela and money laundering, so, yeah.

Maxwell Strachan In Money

How to Be There for Your Partner After They Lose Their Job

Don't email them 87 links to open positions you think they should apply to—at least, not without talking about it first.

Marie Lodi In Sex

Is Vaping Worth Saving?

A running list of the science and arguments for and against vaping.

Hannah Smothers In Health

Juno Was Supposed to Be the Ethical Uber. Then It Sold Out and Died

A cautionary tale: Juno had tens of millions in investor subsidies, while everyone else had billions.

Edward Ongweso Jr In Tech

RIP Everyone Who Dares to Watch Mayor Pete Stans Dance to Panic! at the Disco

This is not what we meant when we said "emo revival."

Bettina Makalintal In Entertainment

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Tech

Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists Are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies

Independent "researchers" are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.

Anna Merlan In Tech

Music

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

How do you narrow an entire decade of genre-breaking music down to a list of 100 albums? It's an impossible task, but we did it.

VICE Staff In Music

Food

10 Thanksgiving-Worthy Turkey Recipes to Prove to Your Family That You're an Adult

From a classic, brined roasted turkey to perfectly smoked turkey breast, here's everything you need to know.

Munchies Staff In Food

Identity

How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba

The Evangelical church has gained a huge amount of political power in Cuba, and LGBTQ people are dealing with the consequences.

Rebecca Bodenheimer In Identity

Entertainment

How Hip-Hop Dance Groups Have Helped Asian Americans Find Belonging

While the art form has always been a space for community-building and resistance, its significance within Asian American youth culture can be tricky to parse.

Eda Yu In Music

Health

Imagine Being Kicked off Your Health Insurance Two Months After Giving Birth

The U.S. is one of only three countries where maternal deaths are on the rise—yet new moms are still losing their Medicaid health coverage shortly after delivery.

Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News In Health

Drugs

The Dying California Desert Town Where Cannabis Is the Only Remaining Hope

From cul-de-sac-fever-dream gone bust to vertically integrated weed opportunity zone, the high desert town of California City is hoping the winds of fate will finally blow its way.

Mickey Revenaugh In Drugs

Games

Stadia the Technology? Awesome. Stadia the Service? Not So Much

Streaming games is here and very real, but Google's Stadia is launching without much to play and without much beyond "Hey, isn't this neat?

Patrick Klepek In Games

Sex

Lube Is Not the Enemy

Sometimes a friction-reducing sexual aid is just a friction-reducing sexual aid.

Katie Way In Sex

Environment

How Gen-Z Is Dealing With a Looming Climate Apocalypse

Growing up in the midst of a climate crisis is pretty overwhelming.

Rachel Chen In Environment

Travel

This Mexican Town Celebrates Its Namesake Saint with Exploding Hammers

Despite several attempts to ban the practice and the handful of injuries it regularly causes, the tradition has carried on for 300 years.

VICE Staff In Travel

Money

Obama's New Documentary Is Great. It Also Reveals Why He's Out of Touch

'American Factory' on Netflix is a solid film, but Obama's message of finding common ground in an uneven labor dispute ignores working people's realities.

Zeeshan Aleem In Money

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