Fri, Apr 13, 2018
"Battle for Jerusalem" On December 6th, 2017, President Trump declared that the United States would move its embassy to Jerusalem this year, upending decades of international diplomacy and inciting protests and violence across the Palestinian territories. VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni reports on the aftermath of Trump's announcement from the front lines, and speaks with leaders and civilians on all sides of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict about the imminent consequences of the future move."A Face in the Crowd" As developments in facial recognition technology make rapid advances, Elle Reeve travels to China where companies and the government are rapidly deploying all manner of imaginable applications. VICE investigates the blurry legal boundaries surrounding this technology and the potential it has to change the very nature of policing itself, both in China and in the United States.
Fri, Jul 13, 2018
The U.S. is suffering from the highest rate of drug overdose deaths on record. Driving this public health crisis is the opioid epidemic, which claims more than 100 lives daily. But as politicians and public health officials grapple over solutions, another crisis is emerging. VICE's Isobel Yeung travels to West Virginia to investigate a surge in child welfare cases, as opioid-addicted parents fight to keep their families together. In India, a wave of resurgent nationalism is transforming the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right political party, the BJP, have been accused of promoting policies which incite religious intolerance and violence. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu travels across the Hindu-majority nation to see how this cocktail of religious nationalism is affecting India's 240 million mostly Muslim religious minorities.
Fri, Aug 3, 2018
"Waiting to Die" examines how some states in the USA are experimenting with unconventional drug cocktails to kill death row inmates after major pharmaceutical manufacturers refuse to offer their drugs for lethal injections. "Women in War" profiles women and girls in Yemen bearing the brunt of a humanitarian crisis caused by terrorism, civil war and famine.
Fri, Sep 7, 2018
White evangelicals constitute a third of all Republican voters and are among the GOP's most-organized voting blocs, but wide support for Donald Trump in 2016 against a backdrop of scandals brought heavy media scrutiny. Now, some faith leaders are striving to move evangelicalism away from political associations. Gianna Toboni travels to the Bible Belt to see how evangelicals are navigating today's volatile political environment. The conflict in Eastern Congo has killed as many as six million people, more than any other war since WWII, yet it remains among the globe's most under-reported crises. Ben Anderson reports on the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), one of the least-known, but most-violent, groups in the world.
Fri, Sep 14, 2018
Greenhouse gas emissions are at unprecedented levels and still rising. As climate deniers and their allies in industry and government thwart conservationists' efforts, some scientists are working to develop a back-up plan: use technology to "geoengineer" the Earth's atmosphere and reduce the effects of climate change. Shane Smith and Ben Anderson find out how this technology would work and how effective this radical, and potentially dangerous, plan could be.