Well would you look at that, it’s time for another Defector staff chat. We’ll be hanging out in the comments section for the ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...

The Saint Louis Chess Club announced Wednesday night that 17-year-old grandmaster Christopher Yoo had been expelled from the ...

Point: Friday playoff games are terrible, by Barry Petchesky I sit here exhausted: glassy-eyed, cotton-brained, every synapse ...

Approaching José Quintana’s pitching should be relatively straightforward: Do not chase. The man does not throw strikes. Only ...

At times, Anora comes across like a movie designed to attract the extremely online crowd, much in the same way as Charli XCX’s Brat, or Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, or the Safdies’ Uncut Gems all did. It ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

Nothing about Tom Brady’s entrance into the Las Vegas Raiders’ ownership group is funnier than the handwringing about how ...

Just two weeks after Helene barreled across Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and ripped through five other states, Category ...

In what has been something of a bait-and-switch experience for us both, Rohan Nadkarni’s last two visits to the podcast have ...

The Tampa Bay Rays have no home. Well, actually they have a home but no roof, and as most of us understand the concept, a ...

There was still a second left in the game, so I spent it trying to remember which athlete I’d recently heard say they loved ...