This January, when I visited Bangladesh to write about the Tazreen Fashions factory fire for VICE’s “Fashion Issue,” a fire which killed more than 110 workers, I was left with the impression that life for garment workers there couldn’t get worse.
Last January, the bedraggled remains of the once-mighty Liberal party assembled for their biennial convention and came up with a big idea: decriminalizing, but not legalizing, marijuana.
I’m a stand-up comic in Los Angeles, and the worst part of going to comedy shows all the time is having to hear white people complain about how hard dating is all the time.
As the policeman in front of me adjusts the strap on his Kalashnikov, I can’t help thinking of Gob’s refrain from Arrested Development: “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
I haven’t jumped in to defend Toronto’s Great Pink-Faced Hope, King Rob Ford, since the whole city called him a drunk. At the time, it seemed like he was handling the hangover quite well. That was until he walked face-first into a television camera.
The Russian was 13 years old when he first killed a man. He has no regrets about it; the man he killed had mistreated the Russian’s little sister.
The Bengali calendar turned anew on April 15th marking the beginning of the year 1420. But a rising tide of violent confrontations and political bickering makes it seem like the country is slipping back to the year 1420, in the Gregorian calendar.
After the revelation that Xristos Katsiroubas and Ali Medlej, two Canadians from London, Ontario, had participated and died in the attempted January 2013 al-Qaeda take-over of the Tigantourine gas facility near Aménas, Algeria, many Canadians could not comprehend why and how a Canadian would join al-Qaeda—or any other terrorist organization for that matter.
In Jordan, getting away with murder is easy, as long as the victim is your wife, sister or daughter.
In some regards, the Yemeni government’s recent demand for the repatriation of Yemeni detainees who have been languishing in Guantanamo Bay for nearly a decade seemed to come out of left field, as did the prison hunger strikes that prompted it.
