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Uber Can’t Catch a Break in China

Lyft and Didi Kuaidi are teaming up to get 8 million China-US jet setters using anything but Uber.
Clinton Nguyen
9.16.15
Tipping Point

Governments and Homeowners Are Burning Through Cash Due to California's Devastating Wildfires

Four years into a historic drought, thousands of wildfires have raged around the state — and the costs are eating up government budgets and raising insurance rates for homeowners.
Matt Smith
9.16.15
Business

As Craft Beer Surges, the World's Two Biggest Beer Companies Weigh Merger

Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller may merge to form a beer manufacturing giant worth $275 billion that would control 30 percent of the global beer market.
Colleen Curry
9.16.15
Podcast

MUNCHIES: The Podcast – Trailer

That's right—we're hitting the airwaves to talk to chefs, celebrities, the food-obsessed, the food-averse, and everyone in between.
Munchies Staff
9.16.15
middle east

What if the Islamic State Won?

The longer the group survives against the international coalition that has formed against it, the more credibility they can build as a movement, and the greater their ability to attract foreign fighters, radical ideologues, and local auxiliaries.
Landon Shroder
9.16.15
LGBTQ

Girl Suspended for Wearing Lesbian Shirt to School Now Helping Other Queer Teens

We talked to Brianna Popour, the 18-year-old high school senior who was pulled out of first period because she was wearing a T-shirt that said, "Nobody Knows I'm a Lesbian."
Lauren Oyler
9.16.15
thump news

Mykki Blanco Speaks Out on Trans Male Issues: "This Is a Form of Cultural Misogyny"

The queer rapper calls music's attention to groups with narratives that are often silenced or ignored by cis straight society.
Michelle Lhooq
9.16.15
apps

Uber Appeals Class Action Status, Insists It's Not a Cab Company

Uber is doubling down on the notion that it's a technology company first and foremost.
Sarah Jeong
9.16.15
Consumerism

Americans Will Eat Anything Pumpkin Flavored—Except Pumpkins

Can we push off the blame on the so-called “basic bitches”? How about the soulless food-marketing firms? Maybe this nation of ours is just riddled with clandestine Yankee candle enthusiasts?
Alex Swerdloff
9.16.15
breaking borders

Stopover in Serbia: Breaking Borders (Dispatch 4)

VICE News travels to Belgrade to speak with migrants and refugees before the next part of their journey, who expect their routes to be fraught with police, barbed fences, and smugglers.
VICE News
9.16.15
asia & pacific

India's Plan for Farmers to Solve the Drought? Yoga and Good Vibes

India's Hindu nationalist government has proposed that farmers cope with depleted water tables and soil depletion by meditating near crops, in order to make them grow more efficiently. Experts call it quackery.
Avi Asher-Schapiro
9.16.15
Art

[Exclusive] Building Art Boats for a Music Festival on a Lake

With its 2,900 acre reservoir setting, and swimming in between stages, Symbiosis Gathering isn't your average festival, and that's kind of the point.
TCP Staff
9.16.15
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