Please have a look at these clips from stories I reported, produced and wrote for Vice News.

Love, Serve, Surrender:
He was hailed as a public hero for fostering dozens of boys that had nowhere else to go. Years later, several of Jay Ram’s sons said he sexually abused them and forced them to recruit other boys as child welfare agencies ignored evidence.

The War Next Door:
He was hailed as a public hero for fostering dozens of boys that had nowhere else to go. Years later, several of Jay Ram’s sons said he sexually abused them and forced them to recruit other boys as child welfare agencies ignored evidence.


The Sloth that Could Cure Cancer:
VICE News host Thomas Morton swings from the trees with an international team of scientists in Panama that's found a promising treatment for malaria, Chagas disease and breast cancer in the most unlikely place: The mossy fur of tree sloths.



Schoolgirls for Sale in Japan:
An investigation human trafficking in Japan.. Schoolgirls now offering themselves for “walking dates” with adult men. Last year the US State Department, in its annual report on human trafficking, flagged so-called joshi-kosei osanpo dates (that’s Japanese for “high school walking”) as fronts for commercial sex run by sophisticated criminal networks.


Infada 3.0:
The latest spasm of violence in Israel has left seven Israelis and at least 30 Palestinians dead. VICE News correspondent Aris Roussinos travels to the West Bank to see if the apparently leaderless youth-led revolt has spiraled into the Third Intifada.


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Japan's Labor Pains:
An investigation into a Japanese government program designed to solve labor shortage that amounts to sanctioned human trafficking. The program recruits foreign workers promising they’ll learn transferrable new skills for when they return home. But many interns are forced into debt and indentured servitude.



Dammed Forever:
VICE News travels to Panama, where construction of a hydroelectric dam threatens the local population of the Ngäbe-Buglé, an indigenous tribe.


High Cost of Cheap Clothes:
An investigation into Cambodia's aggressive anti-trafficking campaign, which is designed to rescue and rehabilitate sex workers, but is actually forcing them into a trade where conditions and pay are even worse: making clothing for Western brands.


Abandoned and At Home:
As politicians in Washington wring their hands over the Veterans Affairs scandal, VICE News travels to Portland, Oregon, to see what it's all really about. We meet Curtis Shanley, a former Marine Corps machine-gunner, who has spent the past five years wading through red tape to get medical attention for a crippling injury he suffered while serving his country in Iraq.

 

Vice News, On The Line: Andrew Glazer:
CE News' Senior Producer Andrew Glazer joined 'On The Line' to discuss exploitative labor practices in Japan and Cambodia

 

Israel's War in Gaza: Rockets and Revenge:
In a series of daily dispatches, VICE News covers the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

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Heritage and Hate: Mississippi's State Flag:
Mississippi’s state flag is the last in the US containing the Confederate battle flag. VICE News and Kal Penn travel to the Magnolia State for a lesson on race relations, barbecue, and the meaning of southern heritage for black and white residents of Mississippi.


Post Traumatic Streets Disorder:
Violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving thousands of teenagers with severe psychological trauma that stunts their emotional and cognitive development. VICE News travels to the front line of this epidemic in Los Angeles with the kids who are suffering, and the adults trying to save them from being destined for the fringes of society.


The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided:
A VICE News dispatch from Oregon, where members of an anti-government militia occupied the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, protesting what they claim is an overreaching federal government.


America's Election 2016: Gunning for New Hampshire:
New Hampshire is a famously elusive state for politics, with more than 40 percent of the state's voters independent and up for grabs until the last minute. VICE News' Michael Moynihan spends the week leading up to the New Hampshire primary immersing himself in the state's famous "Live Free or Die" culture to find out what's at stake, and see the fight to win over independent voters.