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Is Going to College Worth it?: VICE Podcast 031 Mar 03, 2014

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This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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'The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel': VICE Podcast 030 Mar 03, 2014

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This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist Ben Anderson.More from Ben Anderson here: http://www.vice.com/tag/Ben+AndersonWatch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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What's Next in the Snowden Saga?: VICE Podcast 029 Feb 28, 2014

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This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the Guardian.The guests today are Fred Kaplan, "War Stories" columnist for Slate and Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, who also serves as Snowden's chief legal advisor.

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Censorship on China's Sina Weibo: VICE Podcast 028 Feb 04, 2014

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This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo, a book which examines the keywords blocked on China's most important social media site, Sina Weibo. Jason is a research fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, where he studies information controls in social media. He is also a research consultant for China Digital Times and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow. His writing and work have been featured in Le Monde, TheAtlantic.com, Foreign Affairs, and Tea Leaf Nation.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin: VICE Podcast 027 Feb 04, 2014

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This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jerry Brito, one of the leading experts on Bitcoin. Jerry is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research focuses on internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry was kind enough to walk us through the world of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that now has a few imitators.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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Marijuana-Policy Reform in 2014: VICE Podcast 026 Jan 20, 2014

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Rebecca Richman Cohen, lecturer at Harvard Law School and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Cohen's latest film, Code of the West, follows the political process of marijuana-policy reform in Montana, as well as the federal crackdown on medical-marijuana growers across the country.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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Hilton Als on Writing and Race: VICE Podcast 025 Jan 07, 2014

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends criticism and memoir in a series of interlinked reflections on race, sex, and art, and he discusses the book with Reihan along with his early years as a writer and what it means to cross boundaries of class, color, and culture.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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Adam Minter on the $500 Billion Scrap Industry: VICE Podcast 024 Jan 07, 2014

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This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L. Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was raised on a family scrap yard offers uncanny insight into the world of scrap metal and how it impacts our lives from the devices we use to the air we breathe. Today he chats with us about the environmental, economic, and ethical issues surrounding the $500 billion international scrap industry.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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Sketching Rebellion with Molly Crabapple: VICE Podcast 023 Jan 02, 2014

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple

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Mark Kleiman on Regulating Weed: VICE Podcast 022 Jan 02, 2014

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Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at UCLA and the author of the book, When Brute Force Fails. He is one of America's leading experts on the regulation of cannabis and other controlled substances, and an advocate of criminal-justice reforms aimed at reducing incarceration levels and violent crime. This week on the VICE Podcast, Kleiman takes us through the challenges facing the cannabis-legalization movement, strategies for limiting the harms associated with alcohol abuse, and the impact of the decades-long US prison boom.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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