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What Rio's Favela 'Pacification' Program Looks Like From the Streets
Brazilian police are cracking down on drugs and crime in the run up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The program stands to forever alter Rio's famed slums. Photographer Raphael Fabrés is documenting the complicated effort.
Brian Anderson
2.7.13
News

Dov Hikind Hates Judith Butler and Loves Israel
Dov Hikind was in his element in front of Brooklyn College, the idyllic school that is now ground zero for a raging controversy over academic freedom. Brooklyn's state assemblyman, an alumnus of the school, was sputtering mad at Brooklyn College for...
Alex Kane
2.7.13
News

Idle No More Is About the Environment, Too
Idle No More is commonly known as an effort to secure Native rights, and that's true, but it's also a massive environmental movement that's gaining international recognition. We were at a railroad blockade in Toronto during the Super Bowl that was set...
Nicky Young
2.7.13
Stuff

Komplaint Dept. - It's After the End of the World
Most people wouldn't expect to find Sun Ra and Billy Pilgrim in the same room, but Bob Nickas got the two of them together to talk about the end of the world and why some people are upset the apocalypse hasn't come.
Bob Nickas
2.7.13
Sports

The Nationals Are a Real Baseball Team Now, a Homeless Guy Said So
The Washington Nationals are 100 percent for real. They exist. They are good. How good? Even homeless people in ass-backwards Chicago know about them.
Ben Johnson
2.7.13
video

Shoenice Is Now Rapping
The man with an iron stomach and a vision to end world hunger is now rapping.
Daniel Stuckey
2.7.13
Motherboard Blog

The Internet Isn't Amused by Berlusconi's Comeback
Will Silvio Berlusconi get to have Italy just because he wants to again?
Daniel Stuckey
2.7.13
Recipe

Monstrous Breakfast Tower Recipe
Introducing the breakfast sandwich that has every element of breakfast you'd ever want in it (including the coffee).
Ben Daiken
2.7.13
News

Condos Are Destroying Art Galleries on Queen West
The upcoming development of a condo tower on Toronto's Queen West will be taking out the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and a couple of other galleries. That sucks for sure, but how big of a deal is it really?
Benjamin Boles
2.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Is Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor on the Way Out?
United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz has had a rough year so far.
Adam Clark Estes
2.7.13
New music

Listen to Hanni El Khatib's Straight Rock Banger, "Family"
The rock 'n' roll renassance man does not fuck around.
Sasha Hecht
2.7.13
Fashion

Nice Cans, Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs was hired on as the creative director for Diet Coke's dirty 30. We're just excited to see him with his shirt off, covered in sweet goo.
Kathy Iandoli
2.7.13
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