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This Is a Defining Year for WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is now established as the go-to organization for those who have something secret they want the world to know or who hear the footsteps of intelligence agencies behind them. What does its future look like?
Patrick McGuire
6.26.13
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How Last Week's Celebration in Rio de Janeiro Turned Violent

People were coughing and vomiting and had no idea where to go since they were surrounded. One girl said she couldn’t take it anymore and was going to leave. She walked alone on the sidewalk and disappeared. A few minutes later she came back, her...
Thomás R. P. de Oliveira, photos and video by Matias
6.26.13
Young Americans

LGBT

We ask young people about the gender pronouns, labels, and identities they use to define themselves.
VICE Staff
6.26.13
Motherboard Blog

How 'Pay-for-Delay' Keeps Brand-Name Drug Prices High While Blocking Generics

The practice is no closed-door secret, and finds brand-name drug manufacturers offering financial incentives--one might call them bribes--to generic manufacturers so as to prevent generic drugs from entering the market.
Kelly Bourdet
6.26.13
shorties

'La Passione,' a Short Film by James Franco

Here is the premiere of James Franco's new short film, La Passione. It's a decadent and beautifully shot trip that riffs on Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, if it were shot on acid and starred the ATL Twins as demons.
VICE Staff
James Franco
6.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Topiary Is Free: The Lulziest Tweets of Anonymous's Hacker-Comedian

Jake Davis has been released from prison after 37 days, but he is "forbidden from creating encrypted files, securely wiping any data or deleting his internet history."
DJ Pangburn
6.26.13
You Need to Hear This

Icona Pop's Guide To Having No Money

When Aino and Caroline first moved to London they were dirt poor. They tell Noisey how they managed to fight off the scurvy.
Tabatha Leggett
6.26.13
we saw this

Broken Social Scene's Reunion Brought It All Back Home

Part of the fun of BSS has always been evaluating the web of connections between the players, sniffing out glances and grins, guessing at the history.
Jamieson Cox
6.26.13
Motherboard Blog

The Supreme Court's Ruling on Gay Rights Is Proof Google Is Better than Bing

Google complements the zeitgeist at moments like these, while Bing craps on it.
Brian Merchant
6.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Hubble's Latest Discovery Could Change Everything We Know About How Planets Grow

The hunt for exoplanets keep getting more interesting.
Amy Shira Teitel
6.26.13
the vice reader

Marie Calloway on Her New Novel and Being Called "Jailbait"

"I wondered if I should go into his apartment." That line opens Marie Calloway's debut novel, what purpose did i serve in your life. She does go in, and the following 240 pages are what happens next. Reviews and comments about Calloway’s novel...
Lisa Carver
6.26.13
Music

The Art of Punk with Bryan Ray Turcotte

We spoke to Bryan Ray Turcotte, author of the book Fucked Up + Photocopied, about punk-rock flyers and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibit, Art of Punk.
Allen Strickland Williams
6.26.13
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