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With exclusive access to the President, his inner circle and key opponents, VICE founder Shane Smith examines the rise of the Tea Party, the faltering of key deals, and how growing extremism has left America more divided than ever.

VICE founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and to see first hand how the continent is melting -- and VICE follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the world'

VICE goes to Japan to see how the community is doing after Fukushima, and then Ryan Duffy talks with veterans of Iraq about PTSD and other mental illnesses.

Shane Smith heads to Louisiana to report on the lasting effects of the BP oil spill. Then, VICE investigates why Yemen is at the top of the worry list for President Obama's national security team.

VICE heads to Papua New Guinea, where America's Exxon Mobil has staked a claim to a $19 billion liquid natural gas project. Then they go to Texas, in the midst of the state's worst drought in recorded history.

VICE heads to Delhi to meet Sampat Pal the "Pink Gang", to help women band together to combat the many cases of sexual assault. Then, host Thomas Morton goes to a radiation-plagued nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan.

David Choe looks at the rising entrepreneurs and businesses of the ever-growing marijuana trade, then Vikram Gandhi follows the paths of North Korean defectors and their new lives in the highly modernized society of South Korea.

Shane Smith heads to Dagestan to investigate Muslim extremism in Russia, then Thomas Morton joins an Evangelical tour group in the Holy Land and uncovers the rationale behind Christian support for the Jewish State.

Thomas Morton heads to Syria to take a look at the front line of the battle for a Kurdish state, and Vikram Gandhi traces the illicit rhino-horn trade from southern Africa to Vietnam.

This week on VICE, America's cities are picked apart for scrap, and then we see the real cost of America's drone wars.

VICE makes history on a trip to North Korea to play hoops and meet with supreme leader Kim Jong-un.

Out-of-control gang violence in Chicago; the high human cost of oil piracy in Nigeria.​