Newsletterer's Note: Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a ...

There are times when the lag between when we record The Distraction (on Tuesday mornings) and when it goes up (the first ...

Derrick White, unglamorous secondary ball-handler for the defending champion Boston Celtics, does many things well. He’s a ...

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

As loyal readers of Defector know, I am never wrong. I’ve certainly never written an article that was eventually proven to be ...

In Quincy, the 2018 documentary meant to capture the totality of Quincy Jones’s contributions to the last 70-plus years of ...

I stood on an empty stretch of the Alaska Highway and squinted north as the sky darkened. I had parked a couple of miles away ...

If you are looking for some wonder and whimsy from the animal kingdom to lift your spirits this week—some uplifting tale of a shrew that is so small that it sails on gusts of wind, or a fossil of an ...

A frugal baker can also be an adventurous baker, in the sense that leftover ingredients from one recipe can be used as an ...

We open today’s reading with Susie Dent’s Word Of The Day. That word is “recrudescence,” and it means “the return of ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. On the last day of vamping about ...

I went for a run on Election Day. The streets near my neighborhood, normally clogged with cars dropping off children at an elementary school down the road, were mostly empty. Public schools were ...