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

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

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 ...

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 ...