Shane Smith

VICE accompanied President Obama to a federal prison in Oklahoma to film a special episode about the US criminal justice system for our show on HBO. Read an excerpt from a sit-down interview conducted during the visit.

Though two VICE News journalists are being released from prison in Turkey, one of our colleagues is still detained. The episode, VICE founder Shane Smith says, is a reminder of the importance to stand up for free expression.

It's increasingly clear to me that the environment touches every single human on Earth—perhaps in different ways, but when the environment is hurting we all suffer.

To make VICE's first interview with the commander-in-chief a success, we want to hear what you would ask Barack Obama.

VICE co-founder Shane Smith heads down to Louisiana to see what sort of damage the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still doing to the Gulf of Mexico.

The second episode of our show's second season is now online.

Shane Smith travels to Kabul to follow the trail of American money disappearing into the Afghan reconstruction, and Ben Anderson heads to Rio de Janeiro​, where Brazil has taken extreme measures to clean up the city.

VICE founder Shane Smith visits North Korea to try to penetrate the Korean Feature Film Studio, a state-run film production facility west of Pyongyang.

Shane Smith responds to an unscientific “analysis” of the VICE on HBO segment, “Greenland is Melting.”

Behold, dear reader: a message from VICE founder and CEO Shane Smith about our new news website, VICE News, which is now in beta.

We couldn’t be more excited to launch this site, and we hope that you'll help us make it as good as we can make it. We are in this together.

Enter ibogaine, a drug made out of the African iboga root, whose intense, hallucinogenic properties make it a class-A felony drug. But many swear it's the most effective way to kick heroin addiction.