2022: VICE (247)

JANUARY

I Tried to Break All My New Year’s Resolutions in a Week

The US Just Shattered the World Record for New COVID Cases

The Proud Boys Changed Tactics After Jan. 6. We Tracked Their Activity.

McConnell Didn’t Mention Trump Once and Attacked Dems in Jan. 6 Statement

A Planned Parenthood Clinic Went Up in Flames. It Was Arson.

Please Do Not Just Go Get Omicron

Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future

US Oil Production Will Surge to an All-Time High in 2023

So, What Is Happening With COVID Testing Right Now?

French Fashion Crew Shows How to Be Horrible Foreigners in Mexico

Introducing: the Zillenial Capitalist

The Dallas QAnon Cult Believes JFK Was Disguised as Trump at Arizona Rally

How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement

Booster Are Not Going to ‘Destroy’ Your Immune System

31 Gigs in 14 Days: Contact Tracing Reveals Heart-Wrenching Life of a Migrant Worker

Jury for 3 Officers Who Watched George Floyd Die Has Zero Black People

The People in Intimate Relationships With AI Chatbots

I Spent Years Getting to Know a Teenage Serial Killer

What’s Happening in Burkina Faso? Here’s What We Know

Leaked Chats Reveal Fascist Group Patriot Front Shames Members About Their Porn, Junk Food Habits

What Is All This Isolation Doing to Us?

‘We Can Hurt Them in Ways They Don’t Understand’: Ukraine on Russian Cyber-War

Urban Fiction Shapes Culture. Why Isn’t It Considered Serious Literature?

Trump Is Now Openly Describing How He’ll Steal the Next Election

FEBRUARY

Kids as young as 6 Are Using Meth in Mexico’s Spiraling Addiction Crisis

Taliban Fighters Banned From Taking Their Guns to the Fairground

Dutch Cities Ban 15-Minute Delivery Services

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Has Made BIPOC in Canada Feel Scared to Be in Their Cities

APRIL

Returning Soldiers Reveal the Dark Side of Life in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion

Hungary’s Orban Lists Zelenskyy Among ‘Opponents’ After Huge Election Win

Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Heartbreaking Photos Show What Ukrainian People Have Left Behind

‘He Wasn’t Afraid of Anything’: Girlfriend’s Tribute to Ukrainian Photographer

Sirens, Bombs and Curfews: Ukrainian Muslims Face a Difficult Ramadan

‘It Wasn’t Like It Was Before’: Ukranians Return Home as War Rages On

The US Is Investigating Report of Russian Chemical Weapon Attack in Ukraine

Russia’s ‘Infamous Sandworm’ Hackers Tried to Attack Ukraine’s Energy Company

Russia Says Its ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Warship Totally Fucked Itself, Thanks

UPDATE: Russia’s ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ Warship Is Now Officially Fucked

A Piece of the True Cross May Have Sunk with Russia’s Warship

Russian QAnon Is Turning On Putin

Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them

Ukrainian Soldiers Are Making a Last Stand in This Vast Steelworks

A Piece of the True Cross May Have Sunk with Russia’s Warship

The US Is Sending Ukraine a New Type of ‘Suicide’ Drone

‘Red Dawn’ Becomes Bizarre Reality in Ukraine with ‘Wolverines’ Graffiti

The Kremlin Keeps Trying to Call Volodymyr Zelenskyy a Drug Addict

Russia Has Deployed Dolphins to the Black Sea

‘Red Dawn’ Becomes Bizarre Reality in Ukraine with ‘Wolverines’ Graffiti

MAY

What We Know About Willy Joseph Cancel, The Former US Marine Killed in Ukraine

Here’s What Abortion Rights Look Like in Your State

The Fall of Roe v. Wade Is Even Worse if You’re Not White

SafeGraph Investor Selling His Stake, Donating the Money to Planned Parenthood

What It’s Like to Photograph a War Zone

A Broken Democratic Process Led Us to the Roe v. Wade Earthquake

The Battle Over Birth Control Is Already Starting

A Woman Just Got 30 Years for Homicide After Losing Her Pregnancy

‘People Aren’t Fired Up’: Abortion Clinics Are Bracing For the End of Roe

The GOP Is Extremely Concerned About 9 Specific People’s Right to Privacy

Self-Managed Abortion is a Nightmare In The Surveillance Age

The Era of McDonald’s Knockoffs in Russia May Be About to Begin After Exit

9 States Have Pre-Roe Abortion Bans. A Michigan Judge Just Suspended One.

Republicans Just Voted Against Feeding the Baby They’re Forcing You to Have

Blinken Says Putin Is Using Food Shortages as a Weapon of War

Texas Is Investigating Familes of Transgender Kids Again

If Roe Falls, Abortion Prosecutions Will Be a Matter of Discretion

They Won Awards and Loved Hiking: The Kids and Teachers Killed in the Texas Shooting

Uvalde Police Refused to Enter School Despite Desperate Pleas From Parents

Texas Cops Supposed to Do Opposite of What They Did in Uvalde, Training Docs Show

‘It Was the Wrong Decision’: Uvalde Cops Waited in Hallway as Kids Called 911 Begging to Be Saved From Gunman

‘They Think I’m His Girlfriend’: People Are Blaming a Random Girl for Texas Shooting

Many Questions Remain About What Happened During the Uvalde School Shooting

JUNE

Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’ Are Surging Across the US, Exclusive Data Shows

How Well-Barricaded Was the Texas Shooter in the Classroom?

There’s Likely Bodycam Footage of the Uvalde School Shooting. The Public May Never See It.

The Jan. 6 Committee Puts Trump on Trial Next Week. Here’s How Not to Blow It.

Axon Halts Plans to Sell Flying Taser Drones to Schools

Almost Half of Republicans Think ‘We Have To Accept’ Mass Shootings, Poll Shows

Porn, Weed, and Single Moms: Everything the GOP Blames for School Shootings

Roe v. Wade Decision Could Lead to Extremist Attacks, Homeland Security Says

‘I Was Slipping in People’s Blood’: Capitol Officer Describes Jan. 6 Horrors

Uvalde Parents Are Coming for the Maker of the AR-15 That Killed Their Kids

Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’

Trump Needed 12 Pages to Say How Pissed Off He Is About the Jan. 6 Committee

OK, WTF Is Going on With Inflation, Interest Rates, the Fed, Jerome Powell, Gas Prices, the Economy, Your Job, Rent, Etc.

Uvalde Hires Private law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records

Critical Race Theory Panic Is Stopping Teachers from Teaching About Juneteenth

Arrested Patriot Front Brothers Have Ties to Apocalyptic Christian Nationalist Church

After Shooting, Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School Will Be Demolished

The Supreme Court Just Struck a Huge Blow to Gun Regulation

The Supreme Court Just Overturned Roe v. Wade

Clarence Thomas Says Why Stop at Abortion When We Can Undo the Entire 20th Century

‘A Huge Setback’: World Leaders Respond to End of Roe v. Wade

Here’s What Period Tracking Apps Say They Do With Your Data

Can Abortion Clinics Trust the Police to Keep Them Safe Now?

Supreme Court Kneecaps Federal Government’s Ability to Fight Climate Change

JULY

The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care About What Americans Want

How 6 Supreme Court Justices Undid Decades of Progress in Just 6 Weeks

A Far-Right Extremist ‘Bear Maced’ Abortion-Rights Activist and Their Kids Last Night

The Highland Park Shooter Escaped in Women’s Clothes, Police Say

The GOP Could Stop Abortions for Child Migrants Who Are Victims of Rape

Planned Parenthood Staffers Are Unionizing to Prepare for Life After Roe

Father of Highland Park Suspect Has No Regrets For Helping Son Get Gun

She Lost Her Husband in Ukraine. But She Still Backs Putin 100 Percent.

Police Continue to Evade Uvalde Shooting Records Requests

Amazon Workers Who Commute Across the US-Mexico Border Every Day Are Organizing for Better Working Conditions

Everything Cops in Uvalde Were Doing While They Weren’t Saving Kids From Massacre

Lentils From Hell: Daily Harvest Victims Say They Have Expensive Medical Bills, No Answers

From Industrial-Scale Scam Centers, Trafficking Victims Are Being Forced to Steal Billions

Christian Nationalism Drove These People Out of Their Churches

Women Are Being Forced to Deliver Nonviable Fetuses Because of Abortion Bans

FBI Terrorism Docs Show Agency Investigated Greenpeace, Other Environmental Organizations

Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’

Trump’s Post-Coup Blooper Reel Says It All

One Man’s Lonely, Lonely Fight to Ban Private Jets

Democrats Take Aim at Tiny ‘Switches’ That Create Illegal Machine Guns

Multiple Shootings in Langley B.C. Leave Three Dead, Including Suspect

New York Cop Bought Rifle for Neo-Nazi ‘Rapekreig’ Marine Who Planned Synagogue Attack: Feds

The Dire Consequences of Overturning Roe v. Wade, One Month Later

Artists Are Using AI To Imagine Cities Without Cars

AUGUST

‘Baby Killer’: Abortion Vote Is Pitting Neighbor Against Neighbor in Kansas

Nancy Pelosi’s Plane Is the Most Tracked Aircraft Online Right Now

Kansas Voters Just Sent the GOP a Clear Message on Abortion

The Abortion Rights Group Other Activists Want Nothing To Do With

‘Very Inspirational’: MAGA Crowd Swoons For Strongman Against ‘Mixed-Race’ Society

This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books

The Surreal Spectacle of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Capitol Riot Rage Cage

Trump Supporters Are Calling for Civil War After FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago 

The Taliban Vowed to End Afghanistan’s Heroin Trade. What Happened Next?

Insular Japan Opened Its Borders to Ukrainians. Will It Do the Same for Others?

Trump Demands the DOJ Release the FBI Search Warrant… That He’s Had All Week

Trump Had a Crap Week and the FBI Search Was Just the Beginning

The Taliban Vowed to End Afghanistan’s Heroin Trade. What Happened Next?

‘They Can’t Overcome This’: Why The Taliban Can’t Agree On Anything

‘I Was on a Kill List’: Queer Afghans Say They’re Being Hunted and Tortured

‘It’s On a Different Dimension’: Inside Africa’s Most Toxic City

Louisisiana Is Delaying New Orleans Flood Funds Over Abortion Fight

RIP, Party of Law and Order

Women in Ohio Are Using TikTok to Warn Each Other About Brock Turner

Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’

After Alex Jones’ First ‘Surreal’ Trial, Sandy Hook Parents Targeted By Inforwars Still Seek Injustice

LGBTQ Venues Accused of Extreme Racisim in UK’s ‘Gay Capital of the North’

‘The Least Safe Day’: Rollout of Gun-Detecting AI Scanners in Schools Has Been a ‘Cluster,’ Emails Show

Biden’s $10K Student Loan Forgiveness Will Change Millions of Lives, But It’s Still Not Enough

Desperate People Are Turning to Illegal Online Pharmacies for Birth Control

NAFO Memesters Paid Ukraine to Paint Their Memes on a Tank

Millions Are Stranded in Pakistan’s Super Floods. Where Are Its Emergency Services?

SEPTEMBER

On the Road With the Youth Convoy Campaigning for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

MAGA Is Melting Down Over ‘Satanic, Blood-Red’ Lighting During Biden Speech

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

A Woman Needed Help After an Abortion. She Had to Wait Because She Wasn’t Dying Yet.

Police Dogs Were Invented by Slavers. Now They’re Used by Cops.

Queen Elizabeth II Has Died Aged 96

Hours After the Queen’s Death, People Are Calling for an Australian Republic

What Buckingham Palace Looked Like on the Day the Queen Died

People Are Being Arrested in the UK for Protesting Against the Monarchy

Trump’s Not Even Pretending to Hide His Support for QAnon Any More

Being Trump’s Lawyer Is Dangerous. Here’s Why.

R. Kelly Guilty of Child Porn for Taping Himself Sexually Abusing 14-Year-Old

This Hacker Stole Data From 200M Americans. Now He’s Infiltrating Scam Gangs.

Food Delivery Robot Casually Drives Under Police Tape, Through Active Crime Scene

VP Attacks MAGA Governors for ‘Playing Games’ With ‘Real Human Beings’

The Sinaloa Cartel Is Controlling Water in Drought-Stricken Mexico

New York AG Just Dropped a Legal Bomb on Donald Trump and His Adult Kids

Trump Says He Can Declassify State Secrets With His Mind

They’re Vilified As Being Aggressive Criminals. But They’re Risking Everything To Escape Poverty And Trauma

AI Art is Powered by ISIS Executions and Non-Consenual Porn

Russian Gunman ‘Wearing Swastika T-Shirt’ Kills 15 in School Shooting

A Lot of Republicans Are Super Impressed With Italy’s New Far-Right Leader

Company Asked Employees to Bring Family, Pets to Office to Work Through Hurricane Ian

Trump Is Single-Handedly Keeping QAnon Alive

Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend’s UFC Show?

OCTOBER

Private Texts Reveal World’s Rich and Famous Groveling to Elon Musk

Teen Couldn’t Get Arthritis Meds After Abortion Ban. She Wasn’t Even Pregnant.

Exclusive: Mexico is Prepared to Take US Gun Case to Supreme Court

‘The Kids Are Starving’: 40 Hours on the Road With a Migrant Bus From Texas

1 in 3 American Women Have Virtually No Abortion Rights Now

Joe Biden Just Called for Pardoning All Simple Weed Possession Convictions

Russia Strikes Playground in Kyiv After Blaming Ukraine for Crimea Bridge Attack

Leaked Emails Show Mexico’s Military Sold Grenades to the Cartels

Amazon Workers at California Air Hub Are Ready to Strike

2 Men Killed Outside Gay Bar by Suspected Far-Right Gunman

A 15-Year-Old Mass Shooter Killed 5 People in Raleigh

How Koch Industries, Fake Scientists, and Rush Limbaugh Invented Climate Denial

Government Scientists Make Breakthrough in Recycling Plastics That End Up In Landfills

Libraries Are Beefing Up Security After a Series of Violent Threats

Trump Is Already Boosting Election Conspiracies Ahead of the Midterms

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Quits After Just 45 Days

The DOJ Is Already Investigating Reports of Midterm Voter Intimidation

Steve Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison

Paris Baguette Is Being Boycotted After a Factory Worker Was Found Crushed in a Machine

Dozens Dead as Myanmar Military Bombs Concert, Committing ‘War Crime’

She Feared Giving Birth Would Kill Her. She Fled Her State for an Abortion.

Neo-Nazi ‘Building White Ethnostate’ in Maine Now Working With Local Extremist Group

Neo-Nazis, Antisemites, and the N-Word: Twitter Just Hours Under Elon Musk

NOVEMBER

Trump’s Master Plan to Win His Company’s Criminal Trial: Blame His Own Money Man

The Feds Are Worried Election Conspiracies Will Trigger Violence During the Midterms

Big Oil Is Making Record Profits While the World Burns

Don Jr. Testified He Has No Idea How Business Accounting Works

Elon Musk: Companies Choosing Not to Buy Ads With Me Is Killing Free Speech

The Future of Trans Rights Is on the Ballot

Meet the ‘Black Robe Regiment’ of Extremist Pastors Spreading Christian Nationalism

Abortion Rights Triumphed in Michigan and Almost Everywhere Else in the Midterms

Teen Arrested for Synagogue Threats Wanted to ‘Curb Stomp’ LGBTQ People: FBI

Meet the Neo Nazis Who Briefly Got a Blue Check From Twitter

Trans People Are Seeking Nonbinary Bottom Surgeries

Q Is Dead, Long Live QAnon

QAnon Is Not Very Happy With Trump’s 2024 Announcement

The ‘Red Cup Rebellion’ Is Here As Starbucks Workers Launch Massive Strike

Elon Memes as Twitter Burns

Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit

Everything We Know About the Club Q Shooting Suspect in Colorado Springs

The Alleged Club Q Shooter Was Once Arrested For Threatening His Own Mother

‘I Just Played Dead’: Everything We Know About the Mass Shooting at Walmart

‘He Was Gonna Snap’: Everything We Know About the Walmart Shooter

Trump Had Dinner With Kanye and a White Nationalist. It Went Poorly.

A Woman Wanted an Abortion to Save One of Her Twins. He Had to Travel 1,000 Miles.

Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a haven for Nazis

Walmart Employee Says She Reported Mass Shooter’s ‘Threatening’ Behavior

DECEMBER

From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey

Alex Jones Asks Government to Protect Him

Why Almost No One’s Being Let Out of Prison in Alabama

The Freight Rail Labor Dispute Was Never About ‘Sick Days’

Trump Says the Constitution Should Be Killed So His Presidential Dreams Can Live

`Trump’s Criminal Nightmare Officially Begins

Brittney Griner Is Free

Inside the Far Right QAnon Plot to Overthrow the German Government

The Kid Who Crashed The Game Awards Was on Infowars When He Was 12

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says the Capitol Riot Would’ve Worked If She Organized It

Elon Musk Is Now Promoting QAnon

Proud Boys Abruptly Shifted Focus To Anti-LGBTQ Action in 2022

The Special Counsel Investigation Into Trump Is Moving Fast

‘Grueling’: Amazon Workers Describe What It’s Like Working Peak Season

A Murderer Known as ‘the Human Hyena’ Escaped Prison During a Conjugal Visit

Sterilization, Execution, Labor Camps: Rhetoric Against Drug Users Is Escalating

Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault

How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream

Far-Right Republicans Shunned Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

Trump Just Made Criminal History

Migrants Surging to the Border ‘Pray to God’ for End of Title 42

The Fight Over Abortion Is Far From Over. Here’s What Will Happen in 2023.

The 50 Best Songs of 2022

Anti & Pro Feminists Debate Abortion, Trans Rights, and #MeToo

Was the LibsofTikTok Creator at the Capitol on Jan. 6?

Here Are All the World’s Biggest LBGTQ Rights Wins in 2022

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