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What Happens When Your Friends Get Abducted and Sold into Marriage
We spoke to the filmmaker behind a new documentary about the abduction and sale of women as brides in China.
No, Weed Doesn't Make You a Better Driver
"If you go back 40 to 50 years, people thought, I'm only going to have a drink or two because it relaxes me, so I'm a safer driver, a calmer driver."
Unknown Visitors Are Reportedly Masturbating and Shitting on the Floor of a Church in Kristianstad
One person even attempted to snatch a baby from the mother during a christening, SVT reports.
Young Italians Talk About How They Voted in the Referendum and Why
Italy's nationalist and populist parties campaigned against constitutional reform in last weekend's referendum. Eighty percent of young Italians voted against the reform plans, too.
Donald and Ivanka Trump Met Al Gore to Chat About Climate Change
Ivanka really hasn't said much about her views on the issue in the past, but Leonardo DiCaprio recently gave her a copy of his 'Before the Flood' doc, so that's something.
In the Donetsk People's Republic, It's Impossible to Tell What's Real
While I was there I got stuck in a school during what may well have been a phoney fire fight, set up by the DNR to make the Ukrainian Army look bad.
My Strange Afternoon Among Angry Anti-Fascists Waiting for the KKK to Show Up
Protesters, including some anti-fascists itching for a fight, were prepared for the KKK to arrive in Danville, North Carolina. But the Klan never showed.
Shrooms Could Make Cancer Patients Less Terrified of Death
Psilocybin can help cancer patients cope with depression and anxiety, according to two new US studies. But will President Trump fund research in what could be a revolutionary development in psychiatry?
You'll Soon Be Able to Smoke from Hunter S. Thompson's Personal Weed Stash
Guess we know what weed the guys in your English 201 class will be smoking.
All the Shit You Have to Deal with Walking Alone as a Woman
Women from across Europe talk about what it's like to walk home alone at night.
Making Sense of the Corruption Scandal Bringing Down South Korea's President
A soap opera–esque scandal centered around the alleged antics of a "shadow president" has revealed deeper problems in South Korean society.
How Hong Kong's Patchy Sex Work Laws Enable Predatory Cops
Sex workers and advocates say Hong Kong's laissez-faire, not-legal-but-not-illegal stance toward prostitution is leaving many women at the mercy of predators, some of them cops.