The Vice Guide To Right Now

In this episode, VICE Podcast Producer Sophie Kazis talks to VICE News journalist Elle Reeve about her experience embedding with white supremacists, and where the alt-right movement stands one year after the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

VICE journalist Alli Conti wanted to know: Can a regular person get in on the ground floor of a privately-owned vape company with a roughly $15 billion valuation? She tried really hard. In this episode, we hear about her results.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we talk to a professor at Columbia University about how her photography class stood in solidarity with the Graduate Workers of Columbia's recent strike.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we look at how the student caucus of the American Medical Association got the organization to agree to reconsider its decades-long opposition to single-payer healthcare.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The beleaguered company has been updating its terms like it’s changing its Tinder pic.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are excited to share with you a BONUS episode from another VICE podcast, Science Solved It. Our second season is out, and we think you'll really enjoy! This is episode 2, "The Kentucky Meat Shower."On March 3, 1876, chunks of meat fell from the sky in Olympia Springs, Kentucky. The locals came up with bizarre theories for where the meat came from, without realizing the truth had already been uncovered by a clever scientist in nearby Lexington.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

American women are buying more guns than ever before, mostly to protect themselves. VICE reporter Manisha Krishnan headed to Texas for the annual A Girl and a Gun conference where women were being trained to fend off sexual assaults and home invasions with firearms. Here goal: to find out whether gun culture among American women is fueled by fact, or fear.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of The VICE Guide to Right Now, we’re looking at weed legalization in Massachusetts, and how one Boston neighborhood is fighting to define what recreational marijuana will look like in their community.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lot of women’s history remains untold, distorted, or fragmented. There are so many women who have had a huge impact on the world, but who the majority of people know nothing about. To reclaim these stories, Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams wrote a book called History vs. Women, which profiles 25 remarkable women throughout history. They are rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains. VICE's Executive Editor Dory Carr-Harris spoke with both authors on this episode of The Vice Guide to Right Now.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month, The VICE Guide to Right Now is featuring stories from VICE Magazine’s June publication, The Privacy and Perception Issue. It’s about identity in the digital age. On this episode, we talk with writer Mithila Phadke about using Tinder in India -- while her parents were also trying to arrange her marriage.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nine of the 11 states with the highest rates of pre-existing conditions have signed onto the lawsuit to strike down the Affordable Care Act. On this episode Harriet Rowan of Kaiser Health News, explains what this says about the healthcare debate.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Koebler and staff writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai disassembled a counterfeit iPhone X that they bought through a colleague in China for $100. Then they asked security researchers to probe it to find out what it is. The verdict is wild.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CRISPR, the breakthrough gene therapy, has hit major stumbling blocks in the last few months. On this episode, we explore how DNA damage caused by CRISPR has cast doubt on the technology, and called into question its status as a medical tool of the future.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of The VICE Guide to Right Now, we talk with VICE politics editor Harry Cheadle about Trump’s strange and disturbing press conference with Vladimir Putin.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month, our show will feature stories from VICE Magazine’s June publication, The Privacy and Perception Issue. Today, we talk to VICE reporter Diana Tourjée about her online avatars growing up, and the surprising way they affected her offline identity.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month, our show will feature stories from VICE Magazine’s June publication, The Privacy and Perception Issue. Today, we talk to VICE reporter Samantha Cole about the rise of A.I.-assisted porn, and the toxic culture that created it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you like The VICE Guide To Right Now, make sure to also check out our second season of Science Solved It, Motherboard's show about the greatest mysteries that were solved by science.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode, we talk to the host of a new VICE series ‘Latin-x,’ which sheds light on overlooked issues affecting the Latino community in the US.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we hear from a woman shedding light on black entrepreneurs in tech, and shaking up the traditional narratives of Silicon Valley.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we discuss mindfulness, and how it has been whitewashed in the US in a misguided effort to make it more accessible.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.