Balls Deep
Photos from Fire Island's Gayest Weekend
At the 18th annual Pines Party, gay men arrived to carouse among their own, shrouded from the world by woods and dunes.
How America's Muslims Have Handled 15 Years of Post-9/11 Islamophobia
Dearborn, Michigan, has been the target of anti-Islamic sentiment since 9/11, but in reality, it is the model of a peaceful community where people of various faiths live alongside one another without conflict.
We Asked Tugboat Workers About Their Worst Injuries
"I had my fingers ripped off. I stood there and watched the line come tight, rip them off, and then I picked them up, put them in my pocket, brought them to the hospital, and they sewed them back on."
Female Fighters of Kurdistan
Few things unsettle the male mind like a lady in arms. The Kurds of Northern Iraq have long recognized this principle and incorporated it into their quest to build a Kurdish homeland in the overlap between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
Female Fighters of Kurdistan
From the highest command to the lowest potato peeler, in the PJAK dudes and dames do it the same.
Takanakuy
Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre-Spanish, pre-Incan history. In the absence of pretty much any form of justice system—the Chumbivilcas state police department sports a whopping three officers—villagers and townspeople from...
Takanakuy
Christmas festivities vary widely around the world, and are widely a steaming crock of boring shit. Ooh, Swedish girls wear a crown of candles the night before Chistmas? Please tell me more about this scintillating national cust-snzzzZZZZZZZZZ. In the...
The Sakawa Boys
Ghana’s enterprising young cybercriminals use traditional Juju magic to supercharge their email scams, and a subculture is born. Now Ghana’s in the grips of Sakawamania!